A muse and a maze : writing as puzzle, mystery, and magic / Peter Turchi.
"Turchi explores how every piece of writing is a kind of puzzle, offers tangrams as a model for presenting complex characters; suggests labyrinths as an alternative to the narrative line, and argues that readers and writers, like puzzle solvers, not only tolerate but find pleasure in difficulty"--Pr...
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| Language: | English |
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San Antonio, Texas :
Trinity University Press,
[2014]
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| Physical Description: | 244 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Variant Title: |
Writing as puzzle, mystery, and magic.
Muse & a maze. [Spine title] |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The contemplation of recurring patterns
- 1. Directions for attaining knowledge of all dark things
- 2. How, from such wreckage, we evolve the eventual effect
- 3. Seven clever pieces
- 4. The treasure hunter's dilemma
- 5. The line, the pyramid, and the labyrinth
- 6. The pleasures of difficulty
- Sources and solutions.