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On Exploring Craft

Writers as Architects
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The process of probing beneath and even shaving or sanding away the language undergirding literary works that, word by word, line by line and page by page, sustains a narrative's arc, contributes to the perspective of writer as architect. For it not only positions, but also reinforces the significance of line, mass, texture, balance, scale and proportion in a new world, a created structure and the spaces that organize it, that if expertly executed, endures over time.
Foreword by Rochelle Hendricks, Secretary of New Jersey Higher Education Preface and Organization of the Book Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Writers as Architects: Exploring Parallel Concepts in Architecture and Literature Chapter 2: A Meditation on Lines, Direction, Movement and Mass: The Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva Chapter 3: Light, Color and Space in Select Poems by Robert Hass Chapter 4: Glimpses of Proportion and Symmetry: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Chapter 5: Unraveling Texture in William Faulkner's Light in August Chapter 6: Toward Plumbing Architectural and Narrative Space in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, "Soldier's Home", and "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" Chapter 7: Tension, Compression and Pacing in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin Chapter 8: Exploring Pattern and Rhythm: Alice Munro's "Dulse" and "Labor Day Dinner" Chapter 9: Appreciating Unity and Harmony in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day Chapter 10: The Role of Order and Propriety in William Gass' In the Heart of the Heart of the Country Chapter 11: Investigating Balance in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and The First Sentimental Education References Index About the Author
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