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About this book
Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike's Henry Bech to Stephen King's Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace's Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan Castro, Salvador Plascencia, Nam Le, Ben Lerner, Sheila Heti, and Andrew Martin. Writing Through Writer's Block offers the first book-length analysis of the archetype of the blocked writer. From the scenes of writer's block enacted in these fictions, we gather pedagogical lessons that are germane to writers of all kindsācreative and academic, advanced and noviceāand particularly useful for the growing contingency of faculty whose teaching responsibilities lie in both literature and academic writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: What We Write About When We Write About Writerās Block
- Chapter One: The MFA: Rewriting Programmatic Dogma with David Foster Wallace and Lucy Ives
- Chapter Two: Typecasting: Confounding Ethnic Tokenization with Nam Le and Philip Roth
- Chapter Three: Public Image, Personal Brand, and Compositional Control: Overcoming Perfectionism with Sheila Heti and Salvador Plascencia
- Chapter Four: Beyond Writerās Block: Exchanging Blocked Writers and Blocked Painters with Ben Lerner and Bernard Malamud
- Coda: The Case for Bridging Literary Studies and Writing Studies
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List