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Authors on Writing

Metaphors and Intellectual Labor

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  • © 2005

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  1. Barbara Tomlinson

    1. University of California, San Diego, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Barbara Tomlinson
      Pages 1-5

  3. Metaphor and Cultures of Composing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Composing and Metaphoricity

      • Barbara Tomlinson
      Pages 9-31

    3. Multiple Truths and Metaphorical Models

      • Barbara Tomlinson
      Pages 32-50

    4. Metaphorics of Embodied Labor

      • Barbara Tomlinson
      Pages 51-71

    5. Metaphorics of Discursive Sociality

      • Barbara Tomlinson
      Pages 72-93

  4. The Apparatus of Authorship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Authorship and Intellectual Labor

      • Barbara Tomlinson
      Pages 97-112

    3. Authorship in an Economy of Promotion

      • Barbara Tomlinson
      Pages 113-124

    4. Writing in Earthquake Country

      • Barbara Tomlinson
      Pages 125-131

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 132-233
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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 activity and a collective practice, a solitary activity that depends upon rich, sustained, and complex social networks, institutions, and beliefs. This new book draws upon interviews with writers including: Seamus Heaney, Roald Dahl, Samuel Beckett, Bret Easton Ellis, John Fowles, Allen Ginsburg, Alice Walker and Gore Vidal.

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'Drawing on 3,000 published interviews with contemporary authors, Authors on Writing reveals new ways of conceiving writing as intellectual labour. This highly academic book highlights authors' metaphorical stories about composing.' - Writers News

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of California, San Diego, USA

    Barbara Tomlinson

About the author

BARBARA TOMLINSON is Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Muir Writing Program at the University of California, San Diego, USA. She has published articles in a wide range of scholarly journals, including Signs, Cultural Critique, The Journal of Medical Anthropology, Configurations, Written Communication, and Metaphor and Symbolic Activity.

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