The art of X-ray reading : how the secrets of 25 great works of literature will improve your writing /
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In THE ART OF X-RAY READING, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses a...
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Where writers learn their best moves
- X-raying Gatsby : power of the parts
- X-raying Lolita : words at play
- X-raying Hemingway and Didion : words left out
- X-raying James Joyce : language as sacrament
- X-raying Sylvia Plath : jolt of insight
- X-raying Flannery O'Connor : dragon's teeth
- X-raying "The lottery" : piling stones
- X-raying Madame Bovary : signs of inner life
- X-raying Miss Lonelyhearts and A visit from the Goon Squad : texts within texts
- X-raying King Lear and The grapes of wrath : tests of character
- X-raying Gabriel García Márquez : making it strange
- X-raying Homer, Virgil, Roth- and Hitchcock : zooming in
- X-raying Chaucer : pointing the way
- X-raying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : careless wish
- X-raying Macbeth : ends of things
- X-raying Shakespeare's sonnets : shaking the form
- X-raying Moby-Dick : three little words
- X-raying W.B. Yeats : sacred center
- X-raying Zora Neale Hurston : words on fire
- X-raying Harper Lee : weight of the wait
- X-raying M.F.K. Fisher : cooking a story
- X-raying Hiroshima : stopped clock
- X-raying Rachel Carson and Laura Hillenbrand : sea inside us
- X-raying Toni Morrison : repetitious variation
- X-raying Charles Dickens and Donna Tartt : echo of text
- Great sentences from famous authors : an exercise in X-ray reading
- Twelve steps to get started as an X-ray reader.