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Form And Thought In Prose

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Author : Wilfred H. Stone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10

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This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.

Thinking Through Style

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Author : Michael Dominic Hurley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018

Thinking Through Style written by Michael Dominic Hurley and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.

What is 'style', and how does it relate to thought in language? It has often been treated as something merely linguistic, independent of thought, ornamental; stylishness for its own sake. Or else it has been said to subserve thought, by mimicking, delineating, or heightening ideas that are already expressed in the words. This ambitious and timely book explores a third, more radical possibility in which style operates as a verbal mode of thinking through. Rather than figure thought as primary and pre-verbal, and language as a secondary delivery system, style is conceived here as having the capacity to clarify or generate thinking. The book's generic focus is on non-fiction prose, and it looks across the long nineteenth century. Leading scholars survey twenty authors to show where writers who have gained reputations as either 'stylists' or as 'thinkers' exploit the interplay between 'the what' and 'the how' of their prose. The study demonstrates how celebrated stylists might, after all, have thoughts worth attending to, and that distinguished thinkers might be enriched for us if we paid more due to their style. More than reversing the conventional categories, this innovative volume shows how 'style' and 'thinking' can be approached as a shared concern. At a moment when, especially in nineteenth-century studies, interest in style is re-emerging, this book revaluates some of the most influential figures of that age, re-imagining the possible alliances, interplays, and generative tensions between thinking, thinkers, style, and stylists.

Form And Thought In Prose

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Author : Wilfred Healey Stone
language : en
Publisher: Scott Foresman & Company
Release Date : 1977

Form And Thought In Prose written by Wilfred Healey Stone and has been published by Scott Foresman & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with American prose literature categories.

Spontaneity And Form In Modern Prose

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Author : Vidyan Ravinthiran
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-01

Spontaneity And Form In Modern Prose written by Vidyan Ravinthiran and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

This study analyzes post-Romantic prose whose authors—in terms of race, gender, class, nationality, and more—occupy a range of subject-positions. Unlike poetry, modern literary prose has no rhetorical repertoire or structure (beyond those of grammar) that one could tabulate. As a result, it becomes a zone of experimentation and spontaneous creativity, as well as a means to investigate the concept of spontaneity, understood as post-secular. Heeding separate histories and peculiar particularities, this volume reveals writers discovering their ideas as they go, in prose whose sound, rhythm, syntax, and imagery escapes the preordained. There are chapters on William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman (and Hindu philosophy), Gerard Manley Hopkins, Herman Melville, D.H. Lawrence and Saul Bellow, Virginia Woolf and Marion Milner, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adil Jussawalla, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. These writers are intelligently vexed by two transitions: first, the movement from impulse into form; and second, the overlap between literary forms and social forms. They explore the yearning for renovated societies which, expressive of our deepest selves, would also enable those selves—in times of panicked fragmentation, moral relativism, and communication imperiled—to interact as citizens.

The Write Idea

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Author : The Write The Write Idea
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-09-15

The Write Idea written by The Write The Write Idea and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with categories.

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English Prose

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Author : Frederick William Roe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-10

English Prose written by Frederick William Roe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-10 with Self-Help categories.

Excerpt from English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of Writing They have therefore aimed to present a series of related selections that would arouse thought and provoke oral discussion in the class-room, as well as furnish suitable models of style. In most cases the pieces are too long to be adequately handled in one class hour. A live topic may well be discussed for several hours, until its various sides have been examined and students are awakened to the many questions at issue. The editors have aimed, also, to supply selections so rich and vital in content that instructors themselves will feel challenged to add to the class discussion from their own knowledge and experience, and so turn a stream of fresh ideas upon "stock notions." Thus English composition, which in many courses in our larger institutions is now almost the only non-special study, can be made a direct means of liberalization in the meaning and art of life, as well as an instrument for correct and effective writing. The present volume therefore differs from others in the same field. Many recent collections contain pieces too short and unrelated to satisfy the ideals suggested above - ideals which, the editors feel sure, are held by an increasing number of teachers. And older and newer collections alike have been constructed primarily with the purpose of illustrating the conventional categories, - description, narration, exposition. Teachers of composition everywhere are becoming distrustful of an arrangement which is frankly at variance with the actual practice of writing, and are of the opinion that it is better to set the student to the task of composition without confining him too narrowly to one form of discourse. The editors have deliberately avoided, however, the other extreme, which is reflected in one or two recent volumes, of choosing pieces of one type to the exclusion of all others. In collections of this kind variety in form and subject-matter is fully as important as richness of content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Elements Of Prose

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Author : W. A. Brockington
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-17

Elements Of Prose written by W. A. Brockington and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-17 with categories.

To a student pursuing the difficult and little recognised craft of writing, it is always agreeable to come upon any public recognition that such a craft does really exist. It is distinctly comforting to find a person with the many scholastic distinctions of Mr. Brockington declaring boldly, in English, that "in order to write well it is, first of all, necessary to dispossess one's self of the idea that by an intercourse merely casual or desultory, even with literature of the best, one may come by the secret of the craft"; that "our native speech is not native to us as a literary language "; and that "the possession of clear ideas does not necessarily involve clearness of expression "-all statements diametrically opposed to the average English belief, which agrees so far with that of Dogberry as to hold that writing, if not reading, comes by nature. Excellent, too, is the observation that "colloquial words are often vulgar, and more often vague." But when we advance from these generalities to points of definite precept there is room for a good deal of disagreement. In the chapter on "The Unity of the Sentence," for instance, Mr. Brockington harps upon a figure of speech in which the sentence is treated as a circle: "The second thought runs tangentially from the circumference, instead of radiating from the centre"; "the second proposition must radiate from the same central idea"; and so forth, the section concluding with: "Take care that the thoughts in all sentences be as radii from a given centre, and not as tangent* from the circumference." This section, it must be remarked, is one professing to deal, not with logical or rhetorical, but with grammatical unity. That the figurative method employed is likely to be confusing may be judged from the fact that several sentences cited as instances exhibiting defects of unity prove, upon inspection, to be grammatically correct; the faults are in the meaning. Thus: "A child trained in a good home, and surrounded by healthy home influences, generally grows up to honourable manhood; while, on the other hand, a child brought up in an untidy home is untidy and unmethodical when he becomes a man." On this the author's comment is: "Here, again, the two propositions do not run from the same centre; it is quite preposterous to oppose 'honourable manhood' to 'untidiness.'" It is preposterous, but not grammatically preposterous. The defect in co-ordination is one solely of signification. A true example of incorrect grammatical sequence presents itself in the following sentence from a recent business letter: "While in this particular case we should have liked to be charitable, we are not in a position to do so." Here, while the meaning is perfectly consecutive, the grammar is dislocated. In the example from "The Elements of Prose" the grammar was faultless, though not elegant; it was the significations which did not match. -The Academy and Literature, Volume 57