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| Genre/Form: | Problems, exercises, etc |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanley Eugene Fish |
| ISBN: | 9780061840548 0061840548 9780061840531 006184053X 9780062006851 0062006851 |
| OCLC Number: | 641532413 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 165 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Why sentences? -- Why you won't find the answer in Strunk and White -- It's not the thought that counts -- What is a good sentence? -- The subordinating style -- The additive style -- The satiric style : the return of content -- First sentences -- Last sentences -- Sentences that are about themselves (aren't they all?). |
| Responsibility: | Stanley Fish. |
Abstract:
"New York Times" columnist Fish presents an entertaining, erudite celebration of language and rhetoric drawing on a wide range of examples from Hobbes to Scalia to Elmore Leonard.
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"The fun comes from the examples cited throughout: John Updike, Jane Austen...all are cited throughout."--Washington Post
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- English language -- Sentences.
- English language -- Grammar -- Problems, exercises, etc.
- English language -- Rhetoric.
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