Here is an essay written by R J Dent. It’s called Credit Where Credit’s Due and it’s about plagiarism.
R J Dent says: ‘Credit Where Credit’s Due is a cautionary tale, based on a real event.’
Credit Where Credit’s Due was recently published in Writer’s Muse.
To read other essays by R J Dent, go to http://www.rjdent.com/nonfiction.htm
Here’s an essay I’ve written on the poetry of Roy Campbell.
Just click on the link below to read it:
http://www.bookstove.com/Poetry/Violence-and-Exquisite-Beauty–The-Aesthetics-of-Roy-Campbell.72768
In my opinion, Roy Campbell’s poetry deserves much wider recognition that it currently gets.
Campbell is a gifted poet, a sensitive translator of the work of others, especially Baudelaire, Lorca and St. John of the Cross.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the essay; I enjoyed writing it.
Richard Bachman
Here’s an essay http://www.bookstove.com/Book-Talk/The-Life-Death-and-Afterlife-of-Richard-Bachman.34051 I’ve written on Stephen King’s alter-ego, Richard Bachman.
I wrote the essay because I was intrigued by the way Bachman evolved from being a simple pseudonym into a semi-living person with his own life and death and posthumous ‘story’; his own biography that was carefully constructed/ invented/ created by King; and finally, his own bibliography.
Books by Richard Bachman:
Rage
The Long Walk
Roadworks
The Running Man
Thinner
The Regulators
Blaze
In many ways, Richard Bachman is Stephen King’s most fully realised character.
I hope you enjoy reading the essay as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Other essays I’ve written can be found at:
http://www.rjdent.com/nonfiction.htm
© R J Dent (2009)
J G Ballard
Here’s an essay I have written about how J G Ballard’s incarceration as a child in a Shanghai civilian prison camp was a formative influence on him – and how it has become the subject or the subtext of every story he has ever written.
Just click on the link below to read it:
http://writinghood.com/literature/jg-ballard-and-the-fiction-of-enclosed-space/
Enjoy.
© R J Dent (2009)
