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Advocacy and Opposition: An Introduction to Argumentationby Karyn Charles Rybacki, Donald Jay Rybacki, Kathryn C. RybackiISBN 0205295835 (0-205-29583-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writingby John C. Bean, John D. RamageISBN 0205297919 (0-205-29791-9)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing: Brief Editionby John C. Bean, John D. RamageISBN 0205297927 (0-205-29792-7)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing: Brief Edition'Book summary:The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, Brief Edition, is a paperback volume that contains all of the content of The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing with the exception of Part Six, "A Guide to Editing." The most successful college rhetoric published in over a decade, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing offers the most progressive and teachable introduction now available to academic and personal writing. The guide offers engaging instruction in rhetoric and composition, a flexible sequence of comprehensive writing assignments, numerous examples of student and professional writing, and thorough guides to research and editing. Solidly grounded in current theory and research, yet eminently practical and teachable, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing has set the new standard for freshman composition courses in writing, reading, and critical thinking and inquiry. Part One, "A Rhetoric for College Writers," provides a conceptual framework for The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing by showing how inquiring writers pose problems, pursue them through discussion and exploratory writing, and solve them as they compose and revise. Part Two, "Writing Projects," contains twelve self-contained assignment chapters arranged according to the purposes for writing. Each chapter guides students through the process of generating and exploring ideas, composing and drafting and revising and editing. Concluding each chapter are "Guidelines for Peer Reviewers," which sum up the important features in the assignments and facilitate detailed, helpful peer reviews. Part Three, "A Guide to Composing and Revising," comprises four self-contained chapters of nuts-and-bolts strategies for composing and revising. "A Guide to Research," Part Four, helps students learn to conduct research and incorporate sources into their own writing, and includes a state-of-the-art chapter on electronic writing and research. Part Five, "A Guide to Special Writing Occasions," gives students helpful advice on writing reflectiv [via]
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The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Center Theory and Practice: Theory and Practiceby Robert W. Barnett, Jacob S. BlumnerISBN 0205321860 (0-205-32186-0)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Portfoliosby Gina ClaywellISBN 0205321038 (0-205-32103-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachersby James C. McDonaldISBN 0205316034 (0-205-31603-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Allyn and Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers'Book summary:Designed for college writing teachers who are faced with teaching composition for the first time or re-examining their teaching goals and methods, The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers is a collection of writings on important theories and pedagogies in composition studies. The selections discuss a range of theories and approaches to teaching writing and present readers with a number of options for instruction rather than a single way to teach. Written by some of today's foremost scholars and teachers, the articles range from discussing how to integrate critical thinking and reading into writing instruction to methods for responding to and evaluating student writing to dealing with grammar and editing. For those who teach writing.
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Ancient Literary Criticismby Andrew LairdISBN 019925866X (0-19-925866-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translationsby Donald Russell, M. WinterbottomISBN 0198143605 (0-19-814360-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Aristotelis Politicaby AristotleISBN 0198145152 (0-19-814515-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Characterby Eugene GarverISBN 0226284255 (0-226-28425-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Brief Guide to Writing from Readingsby Stephen W. WilhoitISBN 0205188605 (0-205-18860-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Casting Your Net: A Student's Guide to Research on the Internetby H. Eric BranscombISBN 0205322727 (0-205-32272-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Cicero on the Emotionsby Marcus Tullius Cicero, Margaret GraverISBN 0226305783 (0-226-30578-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary Volumes I-Iv, Vol 3by R. W. BurchfieldISBN 0198612117 (0-19-861211-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary Volumes I-Iv, Vol 3'Book summary:In 1971 the Compact Oxford English Dictionary made publishing and printing history by ingeniously reducing the 13 volumes of the OED to two, without losing one word of the original. Newsweek hailed the achievement "a brilliant success," while the New York Times declared that the Compact was "something of a miracle... easier to work with than the original... an extraordinary bargain." Since then it has sold over 330,000 copies in the United States alone.
But the Compact did not contain the Supplements to the OED which have been appearing at regular intervals since 1972. Now, with their completion in 1986, all four volumes are being produced in a single micrographically reproduced volume to be called Volume III of the Compact OED. So the vital addendum, which transforms the OED into an indispensable tool for the eighties, will be made available for the first time in this convenient and affordable format.
The Supplement, called the "book of the century" by Phillip Howard in the London Times, contains all the new words that have come into use during the twentieth century and includes as well the countless new meanings that have been applied to older words--over 69,000 entries altogether. It includes business terms, "computerese," space-age terminology, colloquialisms and coinages by modern authors ranging from William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf to Gore Vidal and Erica Jong. Words like G-man, yuppie, user-friendly , test-tube baby, and Zen Buddhism rub shoulders with the most recent additions to subjects like law, medicine and engineering. The wealth of Americanisms in the Supplement also reflects a new direction for the dictionary. As editor Robert Burchfield explains it, "The center of gravity for the English language is no longer Britain. American English is the greatest influence on English everywhere."
Volume III of the Compact is available in its own jndividual slipcase or combined with Volumes I and II in one slipcase. By a process of photoreduction four pages from the original work appear on each page of the Compact edition and both versions include a magnifying glass that makes the reduced type easily readable.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Volume III (A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, Volumes I-IV) $75.00, 861211-7, 1424 pp., 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 1 volume in slipcase (adhesive strips on the slipcase allow it to be attached to the 2-volume Compact OED boxed set) with reading glass
The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, Volumes I-III $250.00, 861212-5, 5568 pp., 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 Volumes I, II and III in a single slipcase with reading glass [via]More editions of The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary Volumes I-Iv, Vol 3:
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The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary: Complete Text Reproduced Micrographicallyby R. W. BurchfieldISBN 0198612125 (0-19-861212-5)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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The Compact Oxford English Dictionaryby E.S.C. WeinerISBN 0198612583 (0-19-861258-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compact Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:Proper words in their proper places--and a good many improper ones, too! If the OED's many obsolete definitions tend to be the most enjoyable--shuff is dialect for "shy," dolt was once upon a time a verb as well, meaning "to befool"--everyday idiosyncrasies still abound. But, for instance, occupies nine columns of text, and who would wish a single line away? There's also the sublime pleasure of trawling through the sea of relevant quotations. The OED's initial team of "voluntary readers" was asked to cite as many phrases as possible for both archaic and ordinary terms. None seems to have found this remotely arduous, and we now reap the ubiquitous ("present or appearing everywhere; omnipresent") rewards. This huge venture is a labor of lore, love, and good humor. One caveat: If you skip over the Historical Introduction, you'll miss learning about the Unregistered Words Committee, and overlook the wry warning, "If there is any truth in the old Greek maxim that a large book is a great evil, English dictionaries have been steadily growing worse ever since their inception...." [via]
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: A Centennial Editionby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307638 (0-226-30763-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Histories, Comedies, Tragediesby William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 0198129726 (0-19-812972-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Histories, Comedies, Tragedies'Book summary:Hailed in The Washington Post Book World as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions of recent decades," the massive one-volume Oxford Shakespeare was based on eight years of full-time research by a team of distinguished British and American scholars. The result of the most fundamental rethinking of the text and presentation of Shakespeare's works ever undertaken, it offered many remarkable innovations features, including a new chronological order, revised stage directions, modern spelling and punctuation, and two full versions of King Lear--as originally written and as revised later for performance.
The Complete Oxford Shakespeare divides this excellent book into three handy volumes. It contains all the innovative features of the original, including a lucid General Introduction by Stanley Wells, and brief introductions to each work. It has been organized into Histories (including the poems and sonnets), Comedies, and Tragedies, with the plays grouped in chronological order in each volume.
Attractively bound, with gold stamping on front and spine, and beautifully designed, these handsome volumes will undoubtably become a treasure for lovers of Shakespeare throughout the English-speaking world. [via]More editions of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare: Histories, Comedies, Tragedies:
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The Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Stanley W. Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 0198711913 (0-19-871191-3)
Softcover, Clarendon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works'Book summary:The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. Included here for the first time is the play The Reign of King Edward the Third as well as the full text of Sir Thomas More. This new edition also features an essay on Shakespeare's language by David Crystal, and a bibliography of foundational works. [via]
The Confessionsby St Augustine, James J. O'DonnellISBN 0198140754 (0-19-814075-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Connections: A Guide to On-Line Writingby Daniel Anderson, Bret Benjamin, Bill Paredes-HoltISBN 0205268471 (0-205-26847-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Constructing the Political Spectacleby Murray EdelmanISBN 0226183998 (0-226-18399-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Craft of Researchby Joseph M. Williams, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. ColombISBN 0226065677 (0-226-06567-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Craft of Researchby Wayne Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. WilliamsISBN 0226065685 (0-226-06568-5)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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The Craft of Research: From Planning to Reportingby Joseph M. Williams, Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. ColombISBN 0226065839 (0-226-06583-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Craft of Research: From Planning to Reporting'Book summary:Skillfully done, research can be the solid cornerstone of your term paper (or dissertation, essay, or article); inadequately executed, it can cause your whole project to crumble and fall. Yet essential as research is to the ultimate success of your work, performing it is not an innate talent. The precepts, steps, and skills of solid research are readily acquired if you spend some time with The Craft of Research before you start on your outlines and thesis statements. Written by three distinguished professors in 1995, published by the University of Chicago, and winner of the 1995-96 Critics' Choice Award, The Craft of Research teaches how to plan, carry out, and report on research for any field and at any level. Aimed at assisting student researchers, from raw beginners to accomplished graduate and professional students, the book shows how to choose a topic, plan and organize research, and how to draft and revise a report of findings such that a convincing solution is offered to a significant problem.
The Craft of Research is more than just another instruction manual getting you from topic to outline to notes to report. Recognizing that good research is rarely a simple, sequential procedure, but is instead a complex and intricate process, it discusses the subtle ways in which asking questions about your topic can influence how you draft your report, how a quality introduction can send you back to the library, and how the process of drafting can highlight flaws in your argument that need to be addressed. Clear and explicit, sophisticated and practical, The Craft of Research encourages high standards of scholarly achievement, and spells out the steps by which to get there. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Critique of Judgmentby Immanuel Kant, James Creed MeredithISBN 0198245890 (0-19-824589-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critique of Judgment'Book summary:A refreshing approach to the study of major Western philosophers. Introductory essays by noted scholars enliven each volume with insights into the human side of the great thinkers, and provide authoritative discussions of the historical background, evolution, and imporace of their ideas. Highly recommended as stimulating classroom texts. [via]
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De Doctrina Christianaby Augustine, R.P.H. GreenISBN 0198263341 (0-19-826334-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Doctrina Christiana'Book summary:The De Doctrina Christiana ("On Christian Teaching") is one of Augustine's most important works on the classical tradition. Undertaken at the same time as the Confessions, it sheds light on the development of Augustine's thought, especially in the areas of ethics, hermeneutics, and sign-theory. This completely new translation gives a close but updated representation of Augustine's thought and expression, while a succinct introduction and select bibliography present the insights of recent research. [via]
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De Rervm Natvra: Libri Sexby LucretiusISBN 0198146248 (0-19-814624-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usageby Henry Watson FowlerISBN 0198691157 (0-19-869115-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usageby Simon Winchester, Henry FowlerISBN 0198605064 (0-19-860506-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'Book summary:A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage:
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The Elements of Reasoningby Edward P.J. Corbett, Rosa A. EberlyISBN 0205315119 (0-205-31511-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Reasoning'Book summary:The second edition of The Elements of Reasoning retains the accessible and succinct approach that made the first edition the best treatment of the essentials of argumentation. It presents the principles that govern the composition of effective argumentative discourse and includes brief examples, with analyses that show students the underlying structure of the argument presented and the ways in which the rhetoric was persuasive. For anyone interested in rhetoric and reasoning.
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The Elements of Styleby William Strunk, E. B. WhiteISBN 0205191584 (0-205-19158-4)
Softcover, Pearson P T R
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements of Style'Book summary:Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. [via]
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Exercises for Understanding English Grammarby Robert Funk, Martha KollinISBN 0205268560 (0-205-26856-0)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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The Flexible Writer: A Basic Guideby Susanna RichISBN 0205159346 (0-205-15934-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Fourth Genre : Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Non-Fictionby Robert L. Root, Michael SteinbergISBN 0205426050 (0-205-42605-0)
Softcover, Pearson Education Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fourth Genre : Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Non-Fiction'Book summary:This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction and guide to the way creative nonfiction is written today. An anthology in Part I introduces readers to works by exemplary contemporary writers in the genre of creative nonfictionAnnie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, among others. Part II presents articles discussing the forms and issues surrounding the fourth genre, including pieces by writers whose work appears in Part I. Part III pairs essays and memoirs with articles by their authors explaining their composing processes when they wrote the essay. Ideal for individuals interested in learning to write contemporary creative nonfiction. [via]
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The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/on Creative Nonfictionby Michael Steinberg, Robert L. Root, Robert RootISBN 0205275958 (0-205-27595-8)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/on Creative Nonfiction'Book summary:The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, 2/e is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction and guide to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The selections represent a wide range of contemporary creative nonfiction, including examples in essay, memoir, literary journalism, and cultural criticism. These readings establish a thorough grounding in the nature of the genre and provide excellent models for writing. The articles about nonfiction forms, issues, and writing strategies in Part II, mostly written by authors whose work appears in Part I, give readers an inside view of the writers' creative processes. Part III consists of essays and memoirs paired with articles by their authors discussing the essays' creation and the writers' methods and strategies. Introductions to each part provide an overview of that section, preparing readers for the selections to come. Two alternative tables of contents organize the readings by subgenres and approaches, connecting the three distinctive sections of the book. For anyone interested in writing creative non-fiction. [via]
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Fowler's Modern English Usageby R. W. Burchfield, H. W. FowlerISBN 0198610211 (0-19-861021-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fowler's Modern English Usage'Book summary:For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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Guide to Writing Magazine Nonfictionby Michael J. BugejaISBN 0205261132 (0-205-26113-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Henry Vby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320337 (0-19-832033-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Henry Vby Roma GillISBN 0198319800 (0-19-831980-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry V'Book summary:[series copy] This exclusive collection of the Bard's works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each of the plays is presented unabridged and in large print, copiously annotated and preceded by a character summary and commentary. Brief scene synopses clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays describe the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. The explanatory notes are written clearly and simply, illustrated, and positioned right next to the text--no more flipping pages back and forth to squint over microscopic footnotes! Topics for further discussion, critical comments, related essays, and a chronology of Shakespeare's life and work are included among the appendices to each volume. The books boast fine black and white photographs of stagings of the plays at Shakespeare Festivals around the globe. From the wide margins and big print to the extensive explanatory notes--the full text of each play is presented in the clearest and most accessible format available. [via]
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The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introductionby James A. HerrickISBN 0205414923 (0-205-41492-3)
Softcover, Allyn & Bacon
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How to Do Things With Wordsby J.L. AustinISBN 019824553X (0-19-824553-X)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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An Introduction To Rhetorical Communication: A Western Rhetorical Perspectiveby James C. McCroskeyISBN 0205453511 (0-205-45351-1)
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198319711 (0-19-831971-1)
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Mooniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environmentsby Cynthia Haynes, Jan Rune HolmevikISBN 0205271146 (0-205-27114-6)
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My Belief: Essays on Life and Artby Hermann Hesse, Theodore ZiolkowskiISBN 0224012592 (0-224-01259-2)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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The New Fowler's Modern English Usageby H. W. Fowler, R. W. BurchfieldISBN 0198602634 (0-19-860263-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Fowler's Modern English Usage'Book summary:For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0198185219 (0-19-818521-9)
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Now Don't Try to Reason With Me: Essays And Ironies for a Credulous Ageby Wayne C. BoothISBN 0226065804 (0-226-06580-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Oxford English DictionaryISBN 019861117X (0-19-861117-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Oxford English Dictionaryby J. A. SimpsonISBN 0198611862 (0-19-861186-2)
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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Seriesby John A. Simpson, J. A. Simpson, E.S.C. WeinerISBN 0198612990 (0-19-861299-0)
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The Oxford English Dictionary: Being a Corrected Re-Issue with an Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principlesby Philological Society (Great Britain), R. W. Burchfield, James Augustus Henry MurrayISBN 0198611013 (0-19-861101-3)
Hardcover, At the Clarendon Press
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Plato's Symposiumby Plato, Seth BenardeteISBN 0226042758 (0-226-04275-8)
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Politicsby Aristotle, Carnes LordISBN 0226026698 (0-226-02669-8)
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The accompanying notes provide literary and historical references, call attention to textual problems, and supply other essential information and interpretation. A glossary supplies working definitions of key terms in Aristotle's philosophical-political vocabulary as well as a guide to linguistic relationships that are not always reflected in equivalent English terms. Lord's extensive Introduction presents a detailed account of Aristotle's life in relation to the political situation and events of his time and then discusses the problematic character and history of Aristotle's writings in general and of the Politics in particular. Lord also outlines Aristotle's conception of political science, tracing its relation to theoretical science on the one hand and to ethics on the other. In conclusion, he briefly traces the subsequent history and influence of the Politics up to modern times.
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Politics: Books VII and VIIIby Aristotle, Richard KrautISBN 0198751141 (0-19-875114-1)
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Positionsby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143317 (0-226-14331-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positions'Book summary:Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Derrida takes positions on his detractors, his supporters, and the two major preoccupations of French intellectual life, Marxism and psychoanalysis.[via]
The interviews included in this volume offer a multifaceted view of Derrida. "Implications: Interview with Henri Ronse" contains a succinct statement of principles. "Seminology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva" provides important clarifications of the role played by linguistics in Derrida's work. "Positions: Interview with Jean-Louis Houdebine and Guy Scarpetta" is a wide-ranging discussion that touches on many of the polemics that Derrida's work as provoked.
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Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundariesby William A. Covino, David A. JolliffeISBN 0205184626 (0-205-18462-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Rhetoric of Agitation and Controlby Donovan J. Ochs, John Waite BowersISBN 0201006316 (0-201-00631-6)
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The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy : Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrusby Seth BenardeteISBN 0226042405 (0-226-04240-5)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy : Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus'Book summary:[via]The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy, one of the most groundbreaking works of twentieth-century Platonic studies, is now back in print for a new generation of students and scholars to discover. In this volume, distinguished classicist Seth Benardete interprets and pairs two important Platonic dialogues, the Gorgias and the Phaedrus, illuminating Socrates notion of rhetoric and Platos conception of morality and eros in the human soul.
Following his discussion of the Gorgias as a dialogue about the rhetoric of morality, Benardete turns to the Phaedrus as a discourse about genuine rhetoric, namely the science of eros, or true philosophy. This novel interpretation addresses numerous issues in Plato studies: the relation between the structure of the Gorgias and the image of soul/city in the Republic, the relation between the structure of Phaedrus and the concept of eros, and Socrates notion of ignorance, among others.
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Rhetoric Through Mediaby Gary ThompsonISBN 0205189180 (0-205-18918-0)
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Rhetoricaby Marcus T. CiceroISBN 0198146159 (0-19-814615-9)
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Rome: Late Republic and Principateby Walter Emil Kaegi, Peter WhiteISBN 0226069370 (0-226-06937-0)
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 019832149X (0-19-832149-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Romeo and Juliet'Book summary:This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical West Side Story, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet filmed in 1968, and Baz Luhrmann's postmodern film version Romeo + Juliet. The tragic feud between "Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona", the Montagues and Capulets, which ultimately kills the two young "star-crossed lovers" and their "death-marked love" creates issues which have fascinated subsequent generations. The play deals with issues of intergenerational and familial conflict, as well as the power of language and the compelling relationship between sex and death, all of which makes it an incredibly modern play. It is also an early example of Shakespeare fusing poetry with dramatic action, as he moves from Romeo's lyrical account of Juliet--"she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" to the bustle and action of a 16th-century household (the play contains more scenes of ordinary working people than any of Shakespeare's other works). It also represents an experimental attempt to fuse comedy with tragedy. Up to the third act, the play proceeds along the lines of a classic romantic comedy. The turning point comes with the death of one of Shakespeare's finest early dramatic creations--Romeo's sexually ambivalent friend Mercutio, whose "plague o' both your houses" begins the play's descent into tragedy, "For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Sappho Is Burningby Page DuboisISBN 0226167569 (0-226-16756-9)
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The Shape Of Reason: Argumentative Writing In Collegeby John T. Gage, Carolyn Bergquist, David Sumner, Kenneth Wright, Mary Peters, Brad Hawley, Julia MajorISBN 0205319270 (0-205-31927-0)
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Sidney: A Defense of Poetryby Jan Van DorstenISBN 0199110220 (0-19-911022-0)
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Strategies of Argumentby Stuart HirschbergISBN 0205174256 (0-205-17425-6)
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Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Educationby Danielle S. AllenISBN 0226014665 (0-226-01466-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Education'Book summary:"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship."[via]
Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us.
Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy workingand offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.Allen understands that democracy originates in the subjective dimension of everyday life, and she focuses on what she calls our habit of citizenshipthe ways we often unconsciously regard and interact with fellow citizens. . . . [Her] focus on race is entirely appropriate. Nick Bromell, Boston ReviewMore editions of Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship After Brown V. Board of Education:
Teaching College Writingby Maggy SmithISBN 0205175066 (0-205-17506-6)
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Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutritionby Walter GratzerISBN 0199205639 (0-19-920563-9)
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Thirty-Five Letters of Ciceroby David StocktonISBN 0199120056 (0-19-912005-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198320272 (0-19-832027-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text--no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes!
The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations. [via]More editions of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar:
Understanding English Grammarby Robert Funk, Martha KollnISBN 0205268552 (0-205-26855-2)
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The Vocation of a Teacher: Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988by Wayne C. BoothISBN 0226065820 (0-226-06582-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Stanley Wells, William Montgomery, Gary Taylor, John JowetISBN 0198711905 (0-19-871190-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:Here are all of Shakespeare's plays and poems in a compact edition that fits nearly onto your bookshelf or comfortably in your lap. And, as if all of the Bard were not enough, this reissue of an Oxford Classic offers something more: editions of the plays in their theatrical versions, as they were originally performed on the Elizabethan stage. This edition also features a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating General Introduction; reconsiders every detail of the text and presentation of Shakespeare's complete works in the light of modern scholarship; re-examines the nature and authority of the early documents, and freshly establishes the canon and chronological order of composition; and modernizes spelling and punctuation to make the works more accessible to modern readers, without ever altering their original language or meter.
The Times Higher Education Supplement called William Shakespeare: The Complete Works "the most ambitious edition of the works ever attempted," and The Times (London) hailed it as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship." For scholars and general readers alike, this is a must-have collection for your home library. [via]More editions of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice:
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Worksby Stanley Wells, William Montgomery, Gary Taylor, John JowettISBN 0199267170 (0-19-926717-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: The Complete Works'Book summary:Hailed by The Washington Post as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by The Times of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate anthology of the Bard's work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems ever published.
Now, almost two decades after the original volume, Oxford is proud to announce a thoroughly updated second edition, including for the first time the texts of The Reign of Edward III and Sir Thomas More, recognizing these two plays officially as authentic works by Shakespeare. This beautiful collection is the product of years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of Shakespeare's work. The editors reconsidered every detail of the text in the light of modern scholarship and they thoroughly re-examined the earliest printed versions of the plays, firmly establishing the canon and chronological order of composition. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. This superb volume also features a brief introduction to each work as well as an illuminating General Introduction. Finally, the editors have added a wealth of secondary material, including an essay on language, a list of contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, an index of Shakespearean characters, a glossary, a consolidated bibliography, and an index of first lines of the Sonnets.
Compiled by the world's leading authorities, packed with information, and attractively designed, The Oxford Shakespeare is the gold standard of Shakespearean anthologies. [via]More editions of William Shakespeare: The Complete Works:
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William Shakespeare, the Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, Stanley W. Wells, Gary TaylorISBN 0198129262 (0-19-812926-2)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare, the Complete Works'Book summary:This beautiful new edition of Shakespeare's complete works--"The Oxford Shakespeare"--is the product of eight years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of the early documents.
The edition abounds in unique features. It is the first volume to provide edited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as it was revised for performance somes years later. Other plays, such as Hamlet, Othello, and Troilus and Cressida, are based on what recent research identifies as Shakespeare's revised text. Major textual alternatives--first versions of revised passages, omitted lines--are printed as additional passages. All stage directions have been reconsidered in light of original staging, and many new directions for essential action have been added. Specially designed brackets idenify conjectural stage direction and speech prefixes. In most respects, the text is identical to that of the "old-spelling" edition, but spelling and punctuation have been freshly modernized. There is a General Introduction along with brief, factual introductions to each work.
Elegantly (and Readably) designed, this book will undoubtedly become a treasure for lovers of Shakespeare throughout the English-speaking world.
About the Editors:
Stanley Wells, Head of the Shakespeare Department at OUP-UK, is a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of many books and articles on Shakespeare.
Gary Taylor, who holds degrees from the Universities of Kansas and Cambridge, is the author of several books and articles on Shakespeare, including To Analyze Delight: A Hedonist Criticism of Shakespeare. [via]More editions of William Shakespeare, the Complete Works:
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