The Rise of Modern Prose Style
Author | : Robert Adolph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Adolph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steve Mentz |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780754654698 |
Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier.
Author | : John Gross |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1064 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This is a unique anthology. Drawing on the full range of English prose, wherever it has been written, it illustrates the growth, development, and resources of the language from the legends of Sir Thomas Malory to the novels of Kashuo Ishiguro. In the process it reveals a variety ofachievements which no other language can match. The book represents an enormous diversity of men and women - from John Bunyan to John Updike, from Brendan Behan to Chinua Achebe, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Patrick White. As the centuries progress, American writers increase their presence, and by the twentieth century there are contributions fromIndia, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, the Caribbean and many other parts of the world. The selection is no less remarkable for its breadth in terms of subject-matter and treatment. Fiction is generously represented, but many other kinds of writing have also been drawn on: letters, diaries, and memoirs; history and philosophy; criticism and reportage; sermons and satire; travel-books;reflections on art, science, politics and sport. There are classic and well-loved passages, and also a great deal that is unfamiliar. John Gross has chosen with consummate skill to produce a volume that is both a testimonial to English prose and an endless source of pleasurable browsing.
Author | : Andrew Hadfield |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191655066 |
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.
Author | : George Saintsbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul E. Szarmach |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780873959483 |
Old English prose before the late tenth century is examined in this collection of hitherto unpublished essays. Using a variety of techniques, the authors explore well-known and lesser-known texts in search of a better understanding of why, how, and by whom the manuscripts were produced. Part I of the collection contains six studies of Alfredian prosethe Soliloquies, the Pastoral Care, and Consolation of Philosophyall of which are translations traditionally associated with King Alfred.
Author | : H. A. Treble |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107665469 |
Originally published in 1930, this book was written to provide younger readers with examples from various forms of English prose, excluding the novel. The text is divided into seven main sections encompassing essays, letters, biography, travel writing, nature writing, history and public speeches. Each section begins with an editorial introduction and exercises are included at the end. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English prose and the history of education.
Author | : Ruzbeh Babaee |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 152750042X |
This book introduces a number of different types of writing taken from various periods in history and from well-known authors. It serves as an introduction to English-language prose. The texts compiled here are relevant to current social issues and problems, and, as such, will arouse the curiosity and interest of the reader.
Author | : Herbert Read |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Hetherington |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0691180644 |
An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genre Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind—an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. Poets and scholars Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton introduce prose poetry’s key characteristics, chart its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present, and discuss many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of today’s most inventive writing. A prose poem looks like prose but reads like poetry: it lacks the line breaks of other poetic forms but employs poetic techniques, such as internal rhyme, repetition, and compression. Prose Poetry explains how this form opens new spaces for writers to create riveting works that reshape the resources of prose while redefining the poetic. Discussing prose poetry’ s precursors, including William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, and prose poets such as Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis, and Claudia Rankine, the book pays equal attention to male and female prose poets, documenting women’s essential but frequently unacknowledged contributions to the genre. Revealing how prose poetry tests boundaries and challenges conventions to open up new imaginative vistas, this is an essential book for all readers, students, teachers, and writers of prose poetry.