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Performing prose : the study and practice of style in composition / Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holcomb, Chris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Style.
- English language.
- English language--Composition and exercises.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Performing Prose, authors Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth breathe new life into traditional concepts of style. Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate the use of style as a vehicle for performance, a way for writers to project themselves onto the page while managing their engagement with the reader. By addressing style and rhetoric not as an editorial afterthought, but as a means of social interaction, they equip students with the vocabulary and tools to analyze the styles of others in fres
- Contents:
- Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Motives of Style; 3. Convention and Deviation; 4. Distinction: From Voice to Footing; 5. The Rhetorical Tradition; 6. Tropes; 7. Schemes; 8. Images; 9. Rituals of Language; 10. Style and Culture; Appendix on Grammar; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Author Bios; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-69757-1
- 9786613674531
- 0-8093-8576-7
- OCLC:
- 649913252
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