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3 Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Dramaby David MametISBN 023111088X (0-231-11088-X)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '3 Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama'Book summary:Playwright David Mamet's three lectures at Columbia University are ostensibly about issues of dramatic structure, but as they unfold, and Mamet continually explores the relationship between dramatic structure and the lives we live, much broader concerns are revealed. Here, for example, is Mamet on political propaganda:
It is ... essential to the healthy political campaign that the issues be largely or perhaps totally symbolic--i.e., non-quantifiable. Peace With Honor, Communists in the State Department, Supply Side Economics, Recapture the Dream, Bring Back the Pride--these are the stuff of pageant. They are not social goals; they are, as Alfred Hitchcock told us, the MacGuffin.... The less specific the qualities of the MacGuffin are, the more interested the audience will be.... A loose abstraction allows audience members to project their own desires onto an essentially featureless goal.
Although occasionally academic, the overall tone of the lectures is consistent with Mamet's no-nonsense manner of speech. He has no time for obfuscation and little time for repetition, save when he must absolutely employ it for emphasis. He is passionate about good theater, and passionate about the truth. 3 Uses of the Knife makes an excellent companion piece to his True and False, which addressed similar philosophical matters in the form of advice on the actor's craft. [via]
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Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word And Imageby Leonard ShlainISBN 0140196013 (0-14-019601-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alphabet Versus The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word And Image'Book summary:"Literacy has promoted the subjugation of women by men throughout all but the very recent history of the West," writes Leonard Shlain. "Misogyny and patriarchy rise and fall with the fortunes of the alphabetic written word."
That's a pretty audacious claim, one that The Alphabet Versus the Goddess provides extensive historical and cultural correlations to support. Shlain's thesis takes readers from the evolutionary steps that distinguish the human brain from that of the primates to the development of the Internet. The very act of learning written language, he argues, exercises the human brain's left hemisphere--the half that handles linear, abstract thought--and enforces its dominance over the right hemisphere, which thinks holistically and visually. If you accept the idea that linear abstraction is a masculine trait, and that holistic visualization is feminine, the rest of the theory falls into place. The flip side is that as visual orientation returns to prominence within society through film, television, and cyberspace, the status of women increases, soon to return to the equilibrium of the earliest human cultures. Shlain wisely presents this view of history as plausible rather than definite, but whether you agree with his wide-ranging speculations or not, he provides readers eager to "understand it all" with much to consider. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetryby Stephen DobynsISBN 0312129327 (0-312-12932-7)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry'Book summary:As its title implies, Stephen Dobyns's rigorous collection of essays about poetry celebrates Coleridge's dictum that poetry is the best words in the best order. Dobyns's probing examinations of the elements of poetry--metaphor, pacing, tone--and his study of the evolution of free verse are not for Sunday-sunset versifiers. They are strenuous, meaty, and wholly satisfying fare, intended for serious students of poetry. Dobyns, the author of eight volumes of poetry (and 17 novels), believes, like Baudelaire, that "each poem ... has an optimum number of words [and] an optimum number of pieces of information ... and to go over or under even by one word weakens the whole." Poetry, he says, belongs to the reader, not the writer, and as readers, "at the close of the poem, we must not only feel that our expectations have been met but that our lives have been increased, if only to a small degree." And, if that's not challenge enough for the writer, add to it "that the conclusion of a given piece must appear both inevitable and surprising." The final third of the book comprises chapters on four writers, each of whom represents to Dobyns an ideal in poetry: Rainer Maria Rilke, who Dobyns says worked harder than any other poet to develop and change his work; Osip Mandelstam, an exemplar of moral centeredness; Anton Chekhov, for his sense of personal freedom; and Yannis Ritsos, for his "sense of the mystery that surrounds us." [via]
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twentiesby Marion MeadeISBN 0156030594 (0-15-603059-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties'Book summary:In her exuberant new work, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers-Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St.Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber- whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.[via]
These literary heroines did what they wanted and said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. Here are the social and literary triumphs and inevitably the penances paid: crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, and finally, overdoses and even madness.
A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin is a rich evocation of a period that will forever intrigue and captivate us.More editions of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties:
A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diariesby Thomas MallonISBN 014008665X (0-14-008665-X)
Softcover, Penguin Books
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Creative Processby Carol Burke, Molly Best Tinsley, Bunke, TimsleyISBN 031206117X (0-312-06117-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creative Process'Book summary:A process approach to creative writing, emphasizing open-ended exploratory writing through carefully focused exercises and journal-writing activities. Focuses on writing poems, stories, and essays, with samples by professionals and students that illustrate techniques.[via]More editions of Creative Process:
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Dewey Defeats Truman: A Novelby Thomas MallonISBN 0312180861 (0-312-18086-1)
Softcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dewey Defeats Truman: A Novel'Book summary:Despite what the title might imply, this isn't speculative fiction about what would have happened if Thomas Dewey had defeated Harry Truman in 1948. Rather, it's a gently comic novel set in Dewey's home town of Owosso, Michigan, in the period between his presidential nomination in June 1948 and his stunning defeat that November. The town's mania for its native son serves as a framework for the book's story, which centers on a love triangle among Peter Cox, a dashing, up-and-coming young Republican; Jack Riley, a disheveled Democratic union organizer; and Anne Macmurray, a fetching bookstore clerk and would-be novelist. They and other deftly drawn Owossoans move briskly through a plot that smoothly interweaves public and private events. The book is flavored with nostalgia for what the author has called an era with "a lack of sourness." [via]
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Errors and Expectationsby ShaughnessyISBN 0195025075 (0-19-502507-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Errors And Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writingby Mina P. ShaughnessyISBN 0195021576 (0-19-502157-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Everyday Writer: A Brief Referenceby Robert Connors, Andrea L. Lunsford, Franklin E. HorowitzISBN 0312095694 (0-312-09569-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Everything's an Argumentby John J. Ruszkiewicz, Andrea A. LunsfordISBN 0312447493 (0-312-44749-3)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything's an Argument'Book summary:This best-selling brief text shows students how to analyze all kinds of arguments - not just essays and editorials, but clothes, cars, ads, and Web site designs - and then how to use what they learn to write their own effective arguments. Andrea Lunsford and John Ruszkiewicz's instruction is engaging, informal, and jargon-free. Emphasizing inclusiveness, humor, and visual argument, it makes Everything's an Argument student-centered and immediately accessible. Students like this book because it helps them understand how a world of argument already surrounds them; instructors like it because it helps students construct their own arguments about that world. [via]
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Everything's An Argument With Readingsby John J. Ruszkiewicz, Andrea A. Lunsford, Keith WaltersISBN 0312447507 (0-312-44750-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything's an Argument With Readings'Book summary:great textbook for English students. [via]
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Everything's an Argument: With Readings/With 2001 Apa Updateby Andrea LunsfordISBN 0312397399 (0-312-39739-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Everythings an Argument With Readings: With Readingsby Andrea Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz, Keith Walters, John RuskiewiczISBN 0312250347 (0-312-25034-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Readerby Anne FadimanISBN 0374148600 (0-374-14860-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader'Book summary:The subtitle of Anne Fadiman's slim collection of essays is Confessions of a Common Reader, but if there is one thing Fadiman is not, it's common. In her previous work of nonfiction, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, she brought both skill and empathy to her balanced exploration of clashing cultures and medical tragedy. The subject matter here is lighter, but imbued with the same fine prose and big heart. Ex Libris is an extended love letter to language and to the wonders it performs. Fadiman is a woman who loves words; in "The Joy of Sesquipedalians" (very long words), she describes an entire family besotted with them: "When I was growing up, not only did my family walk around spouting sesquipedalians, but we viewed all forms of intellectual competition as a sacrament, a kind of holy water as it were, to be slathered on at every opportunity." From very long words it's just a short jump to literature, and Fadiman speaks joyfully of books, book collecting, and book ownership ("In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar"). In "Marrying Libraries" Fadiman describes the emotionally fraught task of merging her collection with her husband's: "After five years of marriage and a child, George and I finally resolved that we were ready for the more profound intimacy of library consolidation. It was unclear, however, how we were to find a meeting point between his English-garden approach and my French-garden one." Perhaps some marriages could not have stood the strain of such an ordeal, but for this one, the merging of books becomes a metaphor for the solidity of their relationship.
Over the course of 18 charming essays Fadiman ranges from the "odd shelf" ("a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection reveals a good deal about its owner") to plagiarism ("the more I've read about plagiarism, the more I've come to think that literature is one big recycling bin") to the pleasures of reading aloud ("When you read silently, only the writer performs. When you read aloud, the performance is collaborative"). Fadiman delivers these essays with the expectation that her readers will love and appreciate good books and the power of language as much as she does. Indeed, reading Ex Libris is likely to bring up warm memories of old favorites and a powerful urge to revisit one's own "odd shelf" pronto. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Fine Art of Copyeditingby Elsie Myers StaintonISBN 0231069618 (0-231-06961-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Fine Art of Copyediting: Including Advice to Editors on How to Get Along With Authors, and Tips on Style for Bothby Elsie Myers StaintonISBN 0231124791 (0-231-12479-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fine Art of Copyediting: Including Advice to Editors on How to Get Along With Authors, and Tips on Style for Both'Book summary:Many stylebooks and manuals explain writing, but before the release ten years ago of Elsie Myers Stainton's The Fine Art of Copyediting, few addressed the practices and problems of editing. This handbook has guided users through the editing process for books and journals, with tips on how to be diplomatic when recommending changes, how to edit notes and bibliographies, how to check proofs, and how to negotiate the ethical, intellectual, and emotional problems characteristic of the editorial profession. Now featuring solid advice on computer editing and a new chapter on style, as well as more information on references, bibliographies, indexing, and bias-free writing, The Fine Art of Copyediting, Second Edition offers the same wealth of information that prompted William Safire to commend the first edition in The New York Times Magazine.
Complete with helpful checklists for the manuscript, proof, and index stages of book production, as well as an excellent bibliography of reference works useful to the copyeditor, The Fine Art of Copyediting, Second Edition is an indispensable desk reference for writers and editors confronting a host of questions each day. Why use the word "people" instead of "persons?" What precautions are necessary for publishers to avoid libel suits? How can an editor win an author's trust? What type fonts facilitate the copyediting process? How does computer editing work? For experienced and novice copyeditors, writers and students, this is the source for detailed, step-by-step guidance to the entire editorial process.
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The First Time I Got Paid for It: Writers' Tales from the Hollywood Trenchesby Peter Lefcourt, Laura J. Shapiro, William GoldmanISBN 0306810972 (0-306-81097-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Get a Freelance Life: Mediabistro.com's Insider Guide to Freelance Writingby Margit Feury Ragland, Laurel ToubyISBN 0307238032 (0-307-23803-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failureby Paul AusterISBN 0312422326 (0-312-42232-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure'Book summary:It's no wonder that Paul Auster (The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr. Vertigo) creates such singular characters. While his youth comprised a series of failures too unbelievable for fiction, it also equipped him with a range of experiences to draw from that most fiction writers only dream of. He worked with Bowery bums at a summer camp, had a childhood friend join the Weather Underground, and was a student at Columbia in 1968 at the height of the student uprisings there (and at which point, he boasts, he knew seven of the FBI's ten most wanted men). He worked on an oil tanker, for a French Mafia-style film producer in Paris, and for a rare-book organization in New York. He translated the North Vietnamese constitution from French into English (don't ask). His work brought him in contact to varying extents with Jean Genet, Mary McCarthy, Jerzy Kosinski, Sartre, Foucault, and John Lennon. The encounters and experiences must have been fascinating, failure aside, but Auster's prose here, sadly, lacks the tightness and luster of his fiction. The remainder--and major portion--of the volume consists of three plays, a baseball card game, and a detective novel, all written during this time. [via]
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Handbook of Technical Writingby Walter E. Oliu, Charles T. Brusaw, Gerald J. AlredISBN 0312057334 (0-312-05733-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Handbook of Technical Writingby Charles T. BrusawISBN 0312166907 (0-312-16690-7)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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How To Write And Publish A Scientific Paperby Barbara Gastel, Not AvailableISBN 0313330271 (0-313-33027-1)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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How to Write And Publish a Scientific Paperby Robert A. Day, Barbara GastelISBN 0313330409 (0-313-33040-9)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Intuitive Writer: Listening to Your Own Voiceby Gail SherISBN 0142196045 (0-14-219604-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Language in Thought and Actionby Alan R. Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiy-E HayakawaISBN 0155501208 (0-15-550120-8)
Softcover, Heinle
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language in Thought and Action'Book summary:In an era when communication has become increasingly diverse and complex, this classic work on semanticsnow fully revised and updateddistills the relationship between language and those who use it.
Renowned professor and former U.S. Senator S. I. Hayakawa discusses the role of language in human life, the many functions of language, and how languagesometimes without our knowingshapes our thinking in this engaging and highly respected book. Provocative and erudite, it examines the relationship between language and racial and religious prejudice; the nature and dangers of advertising from a linguistic point of view; and, in an additional chapter called The Empty Eye, the content, form, and hidden message of television, from situation comedies to news coverage to political advertising. [via]
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Language in Thought and Actionby Samuel Ichiy-E HayakawaISBN 0155501186 (0-15-550118-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Legal Writing in Plain Englishby Bryan A. GarnerISBN 0226284190 (0-226-28419-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legal Writing in Plain English'Book summary:Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-unfortunately, these adjectives rarely describe legal writing, whether in the form of briefs, opinions, contracts, or statutes. In Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. [via]
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Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text With Exercisesby Bryan A. GarnerISBN 0226284182 (0-226-28418-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text With Exercises'Book summary:Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-unfortunately, these adjectives rarely describe legal writing, whether in the form of briefs, opinions, contracts, or statutes. In Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. The book encourages legal writers to challenge conventions and offers valuable insights into the writing process: how to organize ideas, create and refine prose, and improve editing skills. In essence, it teaches straight thinkinga skill inseparable from good writing.[via]
Replete with common sense and wit, the book draws on real-life writing samples that Garner has gathered through more than a decade of teaching in the field. Trenchant advice covers all types of legal materials, from analytical and persuasive writing to legal drafting. Meanwhile, Garner explores important aspects of document design. Basic, intermediate, and advanced exercises in each section reinforce the book's principles. (An answer key to basic exercises is included in the book; answers to intermediate and advanced exercises are provided in a separate Instructor's Manual, free of charge to instructors.) Appendixes include a comprehensive punctuation guide with advice and examples, and four model documents.
Today more than ever before, legal professionals cannot afford to ignore the trend toward clear language shorn of jargon. Clients demand it, and courts reward it. Despite the age-old tradition of poor writing in law, Legal Writing in Plain English shows how legal writers can unshackle themselves.
Legal Writing in Plain English includes:
*Tips on generating thoughts, organizing them, and creating outlines.
*Sound advice on expressing your ideas clearly and powerfully.
*Dozens of real-life writing examples to illustrate writing problems and solutions.
*Exercises to reinforce principles of good writing (also available on the Internet).
*Helpful guidance on page layout.
*A punctuation guide that shows the correct uses of every punctuation mark.
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Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of English Usageby Theodore M. BernsteinISBN 0374523150 (0-374-52315-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Prentice Hall Handbook for Writersby C. David Mead, Melinda G. Kramer, Glenn H. LeggettISBN 0136952712 (0-13-695271-2)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Quality Research Papers: For Students of Religion and Theologyby Nancy VyhmeisterISBN 0310239451 (0-310-23945-1)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Reporting Technical Informationby Elizabeth Tebeaux, Thomas E. Pearsall, Kenneth W. Houp, Sam DraggaISBN 0195178793 (0-19-517879-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reporting Technical Information'Book summary:Provides an overview of technical writing. Covers the basics, techniques, document design and applications. New edition explores the world of electronic communication. Includes an appendix on Technical reference books and guides. Paper. DLC: Technical writing. [via]
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Reporting Technical Informationby Kenneth W. HoupISBN 020529958X (0-205-29958-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Rhetoric of Fictionby Wayne C. BoothISBN 0226065588 (0-226-06558-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rhetoric of Fiction'Book summary:The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and termssuch as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"have become part of the standard critical lexicon.[via]
For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty yearstwo decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject." -
A Rhetoric of Ironyby Wayne C. BoothISBN 0226065537 (0-226-06553-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rhetoric of Irony'Book summary:Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironiesand why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting "what the words say" and reconstructing "what the author means"?[via]
In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls "stable irony," irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilitiesironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the "infinite absolute negativities" that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic period.
Professor Booth is always ironically aware that no one can fathom the unfathomable. But by looking closely at unstable ironists like Samuel Becket, he shows that at least some of our commonplaces about meaninglessness require revision. Finally, he exploreswith the help of Platothe wry paradoxes that threaten any uncompromising assertion that all assertion can be undermined by the spirit of irony. -
The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writingby Cheryl Glenn, Melissa A. GoldthwaiteISBN 0312451334 (0-312-45133-4)
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Technical Communicationby Michael MarkelISBN 0312441975 (0-312-44197-5)
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Technical Communication: Update 2002by Mike MarkelISBN 0312400675 (0-312-40067-5)
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Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing Itby Howard S. BeckerISBN 0226041247 (0-226-04124-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It'Book summary:Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students can make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. The tricks cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. Becker's advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to "How?" (as a way of getting people to talk without asking for a justification) to more technical tricks such as how to manipulate truth tables.[via]
Becker has extracted these tricks from a variety of fields such as art history, anthropology, sociology, literature, and philosophy; and his dazzling variety of references ranges from James Agee to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Becker finds the common principles that lie behind good social science work, principles that apply to both quantitative and qualitative research. He offers practical advice, ideas students can apply to their data with the confidence that they will return with something they hadn't thought of before.
Like Writing for Social Scientists, Tricks of the Trade will bring aid and comfort to generations of students. Written in the informal, accessible style for which Becker is known, this book will be an essential resource for students in a wide variety of fields.
"An instant classic. . . . Becker's stories and reflections make a great book, one that will find its way into the hands of a great many social scientists, and as with everything he writes, it is lively and accessible, a joy to read."Charles Ragin, Northwestern UniversityMore editions of Tricks of the Trade: How to Think About Your Research While You're Doing It:
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Understanding English Grammarby Robert Funk, Martha KollnISBN 0321316835 (0-321-31683-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding English Grammar'Book summary:This market-leading text for advanced grammar courses is a comprehensive description of sentence structure that encourages students to recognize and use their innate language expertise as they study the systematic nature of sentence grammar. A practical blend of the most useful elements of both traditional and new linguistic grammar, the text emphasizes whole structures, most specifically the ten basic sentence patterns introduced in Chapter 2. Two key features separate this book from others: its clear organization and its user-friendly, accessible language. Both students and teachers appreciate the self-teaching quality that incremental exercises provide throughout the chapters, with answers at the end of the book. [via]
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Unstuck: A Supportive and Practical Guide to Working Through Writer's Blockby Jane Anne StawISBN 0312301200 (0-312-30120-0)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Way to Writeby John FairfaxISBN 0312858337 (0-312-85833-7)
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The Way to Writeby John Moat, John Fairfax, Ted HughesISBN 0140272704 (0-14-027270-4)
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The Writer's Chapbookby George PlimptonISBN 014009878X (0-14-009878-X)
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The Writer's Home Companionby James Charlton, Mark LisbethISBN 0140110127 (0-14-011012-7)
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The Writer's Legal Companionby Brad Bunnin, Peter BerenISBN 0201144093 (0-201-14409-3)
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The Writer's Quotation Book: A Literary Companionby James CharltonISBN 0140058818 (0-14-005881-8)
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Writing Crime Fictionby H. R. F. KeatingISBN 0312055420 (0-312-05542-0)
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Writing Essays About Literature: A Guide and Style Sheetby Kelley GriffithISBN 0155001574 (0-15-500157-4)
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Writing Themes About Literatureby Edgar V. RobertsISBN 013970566X (0-13-970566-X)
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