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Turchi, Peter, 1960- author.
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A muse and a maze : ...
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A muse and a maze : writing as puzzle, mystery, and magic / Peter Turchi.
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Turchi, Peter, 1960- author.
San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, c2014.
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Authorship.
Puzzles.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
ISBN:
9781595341938 (hardcover)
1595341935 (hardcover)
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244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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The contemplation of recurring patterns -- 1. Directions for attaining knowledge of all dark things -- 2. How, from such wreckage, we evolve the eventual effect -- 3. Seven clever pieces -- 4. The treasure hunter's dilemma -- 5. The line, the pyramid, and the labyrinth -- 6. The pleasures of difficulty -- Sources and solutions.
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""Turchi explores how every piece of writing is a kind of puzzle, offers tangrams as a model for presenting complex characters; suggests labyrinths as an alternative to the narrative line, and argues that readers and writers, like puzzle solvers, not only tolerate but find pleasure in difficulty"--Provided by publisher"--
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