BOOKS by Francis-Noel Thomas

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose more books like this

by Francis-Noel 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 people learned the principles of verbal correctness, ...

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The Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature more books like this

by Francis-Noel Thomas, Wayne C. Booth (Foreword by)

In a challenge to deconstructed texts, this treatise argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent is an individual. It offers readings of Shaw's "Saint Joan" and Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu".

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