Let us build us a city

Resource Information

The work Let us build us a city represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Let us build us a city

Statement of responsibility

Tracy Daugherty

Creator

• Daugherty, Tracy

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Daugherty, Tracy
• Electronic books
• Authorship
• Literature and history
• Literature -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

With Let Us Build Us a City Tracy Daugherty considers the principles of literary art in a series of essays that focus on the nature of artistic vision and the creative individual's relationship to the world. The book reads like a master class on writing as practice, while performing a deep reading of art and life and looking to discern why liberal education matters so much to our society. At its core, Let Us Build Us a City is a work of cultural and literary history, combining memoir (of the author's experiences as a student and teacher of literature and writing) with analysis and speculation. Daugherty exploits a variety of forms to explore literary apprenticeship and mentoring, philosophy, politics, metaphysics, and American history. In particular, Daugherty focuses on the creative impulse and the diverse ways in which individual writers apply their imaginations to their craft. Along the way, he offers multiple lace of creative practice within it. Let Us Build Us a City is a stirring defense and timely renewal of our national literary vision

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

• 814/.54
• B

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Crux, the Georgia series in literary nonfiction

Target audience

adult