Maps of the Imagination

• Utgivningsdatum: 2007-10-11
• Mått: 139 x 209 x 24 mm
• Vikt: 496 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 246
• Förlag: Trinity University Press,U.S.
• ISBN: 9781595340412
• Utmärkelser: Book Art Foundation of Germany Stiftung Buchkunst Silver Medal

• Litteraturvetenskap

Peter Turchi is the Director of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is the author of the novel The Girls Next Door and the story collection Magician, and the coeditor, with Andrea Barrett, of The Story Behind the Story: 26 Stories by Contemporary Writers and How They Work and, with Charles Baxter, of Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

“Readers, after all, love to get lost in a good book. It is a wise writer who will not only deposit them there but lead them out again, whole and thoroughly satisfied.”— ForeWord“It’s not uncommon to compare the writing of a story to the mapping of a world, but no one has so fully, or so seductively and rewardingly, performed as extended a meditation on this illuminating metaphor as Turchi. . . . Brilliant and pleasurable, Turchi’s musing on our innate need to know where we are, where we might go, and why alters our perceptions of not only maps and fiction but also the nature of the mind’s terra incognita.”— Booklist“For Turchi, the map is more than metaphor: it is an organizing principle of narrative. Language is like a land, paragraphs are districts, sentences are streets, and words are only lines and curves constructed the way maps are made of lines and shapes. Letters are like wild canyons and chaotic seas that the writer maps into words and then into sentences and then into scenes.”— The New Yorker“I wish I had written Maps of the Imagination.”— Rebecca Solnit“A gorgeous book in every way… engaging, intelligent, and never jargon laden; this book wears its vast learning lightly.”— CHOICE“A book that cries to be read more than once.”— Greensboro News & Record“Maps of the Imagination ranges widely across a many disciplines and art forms, from mathematics and formal geometry to Marx Brothers movies and the works of such writers as Borges and Calvino. Sometimes with off-the-cuff analogies, sometimes with pages of analysis, Turchi charts a lively course through a labyrinthine field of varying ways of looking at the world and, most important, the blank page.”— Publishers Weekly“[Turchi’s] study of maps has inspired writers, artists, and designers for more than a decade, about what maps can teach us when it comes to the creative process.”— Fast Company“A treasure map for discovering secrets of the writer's life.”— The Charlotte Observer“Maps of the Imagination should inspire both reader and writer as well as those of us who look at a map and immediately begin to dream of journeys not yet taken.”— The St. Petersburg Times“A genre-defying gem that straddles art book, writer’s manual and cultural critique in an utterly captivating way that makes you look at both old maps and familiar fiction with new eyes.”— Brain Pickings

1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

1. 5/5 UKCynthiaR 2015-05-01

   I purchased this book for an eight-week online writing course. Because I recently moved to Sweden, I was very happy to find it available in Sweden so I wouldn't have to pay for shipping from the UK or US. The service was so fast! Thank you, bokus.com!
   
   As to the book, this is a wonderful resource. I recommend the print version because of the beautiful maps and other illustrations. Usually, I buy Kindle-friendly books but I wanted this "paper book" in my library to enjoy the rich detail of the many prints, old maps and graphics.
   
   If you are interested in creative writing, expanding your imagination, working with a process to understand how the mind works and how you can "map" your way to a better product, this is the perfect book. If you only want to look at the beautiful maps and "dip your toe" in the artistic process, then this is also a wonderful book.
   
   I like the paperback so much that, later, I will purchase the hard-bound book. But now I am taking notes, highlighting and doodling in the margins of the paperback -- very happily. A great book.