Writing Manuals for the Masses
Editorial: Springer Nature
Licencia: Creative Commons (by)
Autor(es): Masschelein, Anneleen
The "writing advice industry" is one of the most enigmatic and, until
recently, most overlooked areas of literature. Christopher Hilliard coined
the term to indicate a number of different services offered in the early
twentieth century to amateur writers and aspiring authors, handbooks1
as well as "other commercial dispensers of advice: writer's magazines more analogous to the hobby press than to literary reviews; correspondence schools; and manuscript criticism and placement-advice services or bureaus (Hilliard 2006, p. 20). Today, there is still a large array of practices on offer, ranging from commercial how-to books to creative writing manuals and textbooks, highly specialized volumes addressing specific aspects of a text or a genre (such as beginnings, middles, and ends (Kress 2011) or an encyclopedia of poisons for detective writers (Stevens and Klarner 1990), self-help books, therapeutic writing manuals, and writing memoirs, in which established authors mix autobiography from the vantage point of the writerly lifestyle with advice.
[Belgium: 2021]
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