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A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Univ of Georgia Pr
Publication date March 1, 2012
Pages 193
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780820338507
ISBN-10 0820338508
Dimensions 0.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.05 lbs.
Original list price $59.95
Other format details university press
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For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self. Considering various types of participatory writing as different strains of one style―immersion writing―Robin Hemley offers new perspectives and practical advice for writers of this nonfiction genre.

Immersion writing can be broken down into the broad categories of travel writing, immersion memoir, and immersion journalism. Using the work of such authors as Barbara Ehrenreich, Hunter S. Thompson, Ted Conover, A. J. Jacobs, Nellie Bly, Julio Cortazar, and James Agee, Hemley examines these three major types of immersion writing and further identifies the subcategories of the quest, the experiment, the investigation, the infiltration, and the reenactment. Included in the book are helpful exercises, models for immersion writing, and a chapter on one of the most fraught subjects for nonfiction writers―the ethics and legalities of writing about other people.

A Field Guide for Immersion Writing recalibrates and redefines the way writers approach their relationship to their subjects. Suitable for beginners and advanced writers, the book provides an enlightening, provocative, and often amusing look at the ways in which nonfiction writers engage with the world around them.

A Friends Fund Publication.



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9780820338507 | details & prices | 193 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $59.95
About: For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self.
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