Peter Turchi

Broschiertes Buch

Maps of the Imagination

The Writer as Cartographer

Beschreibung

Traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. This book describes how maps rely on projections in order to portray a three-dimensional world on the two-dimensional flat surface of paper.

Autor

Peter Turchi has written and coedited several books on writing fiction, including Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, A Muse and a Maze: Writing as Puzzle, Mystery, and Magic, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, and (Don't) Stop Me if You've Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction. His stories have appeared in  Ploughshares, Story, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and the  Colorado Review, among other journals. He has received numerous accolades, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trinity University Press, U.S.
• First Trade Paper Edition
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 146mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781595340412
• ISBN-10: 1595340416
• Artikelnr.: 22695441