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10. Certitudes
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments vi
- Contents vii
- Author’s Note xi
- 1. Closing the Books: A Devoted Reader Arrives at the End of the Story 1
- 2. H. C. Witwer and Me: The Making of a Reader 17
- 3. Stop the Presses: A Petition for Less Writing 29
- 4. What Do You Know? What Don’t You Know? 39
- 5. Death, It’s What Ails You 55
- 6. Why Smart People Believe in God 69
- 7. Taste, Too, Is an Art 85
- 8. The Rule of Temperament 97
- 9. Art and Craft 107
- 10. Certitudes 117
- 11. What Happened? The Rise and Fall of Theory 127
- 12. How We Write When We Write About Writing 137
- 13. Looking for a Good Argument: Argument and the Novel 149
- 14. Just Imagine: Three Hundred Years of the Creative Imagination 157
- 15. Going, Going, Gone: The Place of Poetry in American Letters 167
- 16. The Writing Life 181
- Credits 191
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments vi
- Contents vii
- Author’s Note xi
- 1. Closing the Books: A Devoted Reader Arrives at the End of the Story 1
- 2. H. C. Witwer and Me: The Making of a Reader 17
- 3. Stop the Presses: A Petition for Less Writing 29
- 4. What Do You Know? What Don’t You Know? 39
- 5. Death, It’s What Ails You 55
- 6. Why Smart People Believe in God 69
- 7. Taste, Too, Is an Art 85
- 8. The Rule of Temperament 97
- 9. Art and Craft 107
- 10. Certitudes 117
- 11. What Happened? The Rise and Fall of Theory 127
- 12. How We Write When We Write About Writing 137
- 13. Looking for a Good Argument: Argument and the Novel 149
- 14. Just Imagine: Three Hundred Years of the Creative Imagination 157
- 15. Going, Going, Gone: The Place of Poetry in American Letters 167
- 16. The Writing Life 181
- Credits 191