HON 499 Professor Moon's Library Instruction: Durkheim

The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision by providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples. Written in a tone that is personal and non-prescriptive, the text encourages students to develop proficiency through each step of the writing process, offering an abundance of exercises designed to spur writing and creativity.  The text also integrates diverse contemporary short stories in every chapter in the belief that the reading of inspiring fiction goes hand-in-hand with the writing of fresh and exciting stories.

In the context of a short story, every sentence, every word must serve a specific purpose. That's why the writers who have mastered this form -- Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Raymond Carver -- are often afforded the highest critical praise. In Short Story Writing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of the Short Story, Charles Raymond Barrett offers simple, straightforward tips and advice that will help any aspiring author sharpen their short-story writing skills.

I. Freedom, a psychological problem? -- II. Emergence of the individual and the ambiguity of freedom -- III. Freedom in the age of the Reformation -- Medieval background and the Renaissance -- Period of the Reformation -- IV. Two aspects of freedom for modern man -- V. Mechanisms of escape -- Authoritarianism -- Destructiveness -- Automaton conformity -- VI. Psychology of Nazism -- VII. Freedom and democracy -- The illusion of individuality -- Freedom and spontaneity -- Appendix: Character and the social process -- Index.