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Understanding the essay / [edited by] Edward O. Shakespeare, Peter H. Reinke [and] Elliot W. Fenander.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, Edward O., editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- College readers.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 205 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Odyssey Press, [1966]
- Contents:
- Pt.1 How to read the essay : Butternut / Donald Culross Peattie (The abstract and the specific)
- Christmas greens / Richard Steele (Irony and satire)
- Galapagos Archipelago : the great tortoises / Charles Darwin (Style : appropriateness of words and details)
- Twins / E.B. White (Style : Selection of details and words ; Images and figures of speech ; Parallel construction ; Continuity and transitions)
- Early years in Florida, Missouri / Mark Twain (Style : tone and humor)
- Frankie Laine, at the London Palladium / Kenneth Tynan (Style : more on humor : hyperbole and understatement).
- Pt.2 A collection of essays : The laws of comedy / Walter Kerr
- Teen-agers mirror their parents / Russell Lynes
- from "Notes and comment" / The New Yorker
- A well in India / Peggy Streit, Pierre Streit
- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell
- Couch-as-couch-can / Jules Feiffer
- No news from Auschwitz / A.M. Rosenthal
- Is war inevitable? / Julian Huxley
- The United States / E.M. Forster
- The voyage / Washington Irving
- Segregation / Robert Penn Warren
- Leave us defense against solecisms / Red Smith
- On familiar style / William Hazlitt
- Do you want to make something out of it / James Thurber
- Religion and science / Albert Einstein
- Partnership : a blind man and his dog / Peter Putnam
- Mazie / Joseph Mitchell.
- Pt.3 For the interested reader : Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest / Washington Irving
- A book that influenced me / E.M. Forster
- The ring of time / E.B. White
- A reply to Jenny Simper / Richard Steele
- Glossary of literary terms.
- OCLC:
- 1165706
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