Voice and Vision
Subtitle
A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction
It has become commonplace these days to speak of “unpacking” texts. "Voice and Vision" is a book about packing that prose in the first place. While history is scholarship, it is also art — that is, literature. And while it has no need to emulate fiction, slump into memoir or become self-referential text, its composition does need to be conscious and informed.
Bio
Stephen J. Pyne is a Regents' Professor for ASU's School of Life Sciences. He has written over 30 books, mostly on the history and management of wildland and rural fire, including big-screen surveys for the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe and the world generally, and is completing a multi-volume fire history of the U.S. and its regions since 1960.
Date published
Publisher
Harvard University Press ISBN
9780674060425 Genres
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