Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor

by Barbara Tomlinson

Drawing on some 3,000 published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing: Metaphors and Intellectual Labor reveals new ways of conceiving of writing as intellectual labor. Authors' metaphorical stories about composing highlight not interior worlds but socially situated cultures of composing and apparatuses of authorship. Through an original method of interpreting metaphorical stories, Tomlinson argues that writing is both an individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140394895X
• ISBN13: 9781403948953
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"