| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Motives of style -- Convention and deviation -- Distinction : from voice to footing -- The rhetorical tradition -- Tropes -- Schemes -- Images -- Rituals of language -- Style and culture -- Appendix on grammar. |
| 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 fresh w. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Style.
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English language -- Style. |
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English language -- Composition and exercises.
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English language -- Composition and exercises. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Holcomb, Chris. Performing prose. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010 (DLC) 2009030705 |
| ISBN |
9780809385768 (electronic book) |
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0809385767 (electronic book) |
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9780809329533 (alkaline paper) |
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0809329530 (alkaline paper) |
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