Clear and Simple as the Truth : : Writing Classic Prose / / Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner.
Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only peopl...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- |t CLEAR AND SIMPLE AS THE TRUTH -- |t ONE: PRINCIPLES OF CLASSIC STYLE -- |t TWO: THE MUSEUM -- |t THREE: FURTHER READINGS IN CLASSIC PROSE -- |t NOTES -- |t INDEX |
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520 | |a Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards.In the first half of Clear and Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing.The second half of the book is a tour of examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) | |
650 | 0 | |a English language |x Rhetoric. | |
650 | 0 | |a English language |x Style. | |
650 | 0 | |a Exposition (Rhetoric). | |
650 | 0 | |a Report writing. | |
650 | 7 | |a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a Abstraction. | ||
653 | |a Accessibility. | ||
653 | |a Active voice. | ||
653 | |a Allegory. | ||
653 | |a Antithesis. | ||
653 | |a Approximation. | ||
653 | |a Areopagitica. | ||
653 | |a Classical language. | ||
653 | |a Colloquialism. | ||
653 | |a Concept. | ||
653 | |a Conflation. | ||
653 | |a Creative nonfiction. | ||
653 | |a Deed. | ||
653 | |a Distraction. | ||
653 | |a Divine providence. | ||
653 | |a Elizabeth Eisenstein. | ||
653 | |a Empiricism. | ||
653 | |a Erudition. | ||
653 | |a Essay. | ||
653 | |a Etiquette. | ||
653 | |a Family resemblance. | ||
653 | |a Figure of speech. | ||
653 | |a Fine art. | ||
653 | |a Formality. | ||
653 | |a Greatness. | ||
653 | |a Handbook. | ||
653 | |a Heuristic. | ||
653 | |a Hilary Putnam. | ||
653 | |a Humility. | ||
653 | |a Ideogram. | ||
653 | |a Image schema. | ||
653 | |a Inception. | ||
653 | |a Informality. | ||
653 | |a Ingenuity. | ||
653 | |a Introspection. | ||
653 | |a Invention. | ||
653 | |a Irony. | ||
653 | |a James Thurber. | ||
653 | |a Julian Barnes. | ||
653 | |a Kenneth Burke. | ||
653 | |a Lady Catherine de Bourgh. | ||
653 | |a Lettres provinciales. | ||
653 | |a Level of detail. | ||
653 | |a Linguistic competence. | ||
653 | |a Mark Twain. | ||
653 | |a Metonymy. | ||
653 | |a Mr. | ||
653 | |a Narrative. | ||
653 | |a New Thought. | ||
653 | |a Obfuscation. | ||
653 | |a On Truth. | ||
653 | |a Optimism. | ||
653 | |a Oracle. | ||
653 | |a Parody. | ||
653 | |a Peor. | ||
653 | |a Persuasive writing. | ||
653 | |a Philosopher. | ||
653 | |a Philosophy. | ||
653 | |a Phrase. | ||
653 | |a Piety. | ||
653 | |a Plain English. | ||
653 | |a Platitude. | ||
653 | |a Prima facie. | ||
653 | |a Printing. | ||
653 | |a Prose. | ||
653 | |a Provenance. | ||
653 | |a Reasonable person. | ||
653 | |a Religion. | ||
653 | |a Result. | ||
653 | |a Rhetoric. | ||
653 | |a Righteousness. | ||
653 | |a Romanticism. | ||
653 | |a Science. | ||
653 | |a Self-interest. | ||
653 | |a Selfishness. | ||
653 | |a Sentimentality. | ||
653 | |a Silliness. | ||
653 | |a Simile. | ||
653 | |a Sincerity. | ||
653 | |a Sir Thomas Elyot. | ||
653 | |a Skepticism. | ||
653 | |a Sophistication. | ||
653 | |a Special pleading. | ||
653 | |a Spoken language. | ||
653 | |a Standard English. | ||
653 | |a Subtitle (captioning). | ||
653 | |a Suggestion. | ||
653 | |a Superiority (short story). | ||
653 | |a The Elements of Style. | ||
653 | |a The Other Hand. | ||
653 | |a Theorem. | ||
653 | |a Thought. | ||
653 | |a Thucydides. | ||
653 | |a Treatise. | ||
653 | |a Understanding. | ||
653 | |a Understatement. | ||
653 | |a Verbosity. | ||
653 | |a White's. | ||
653 | |a Writing style. | ||
653 | |a Writing. | ||
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