Voice and Vision : : A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction / / Stephen J. Pyne.
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 tex...
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