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Author : Alexander Melville Bell
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Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Essays and Postscripts on Elocution written by Alexander Melville Bell and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Melville Bell
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ISBN 13 : 9781331987567
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Essays and Postscripts on Elocution (Classic Reprint) written by Alexander Melville Bell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays and Postscripts on Elocution The author's systematic treatises and text-books on Elocution, Alphabetics, Defects of Speech, etc., have long been honoured with a wide circle of students. To these Works the reader must be referred for a complete development of the subjects discursively treated in the "Essays and Postscripts" which compose this volume. Of the latter, the author can only hope that they may, at least, prove incentives to further study on the part of interested readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Simon Leys
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176383
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
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Author : Edinburgh University Library
Publisher : Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464571
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Men Explain Things to Me written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect “antidote to mansplaining” (The Stranger). In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note— because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me!” This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women. “In this series of personal but unsentimental essays, Solnit gives succinct shorthand to a familiar female experience that before had gone unarticulated, perhaps even unrecognized.” —The New York Times “Essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic “This slim book hums with power and wit.” —Boston Globe “Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Essential.” —Marketplace “Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions.” —Salon
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Total Pages : 360 pages
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Total Pages : 864 pages
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Author : Walter Pater
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368330225
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)
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Author : Ned Stuckey-French
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 082621925X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The American Essay in the American Century written by Ned Stuckey-French and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old books. These connotations exist despite the fact that Americans have been reading and enjoying personal essays in popular magazines for decades, engaging with a multitude of ideas through this short-form means of expression. To defend the essay—that misunderstood staple of first-year composition courses—Ned Stuckey-French has written The American Essay in the American Century. This book uncovers the buried history of the American personal essay and reveals how it played a significant role in twentieth-century cultural history. In the early 1900s, writers and critics debated the “death of the essay,” claiming it was too traditional to survive the era’s growing commercialism, labeling it a bastion of British upper-class conventions. Yet in that period, the essay blossomed into a cultural force as a new group of writers composed essays that responded to the concerns of America’s expanding cosmopolitan readership. These essays would spark the “magazine revolution,” giving a fresh voice to the ascendant middle class of the young century. With extensive research and a cultural context, Stuckey-French describes the many reasons essays grew in appeal and importance for Americans. He also explores the rise of E. B. White, considered by many the greatest American essayist of the first half of the twentieth century whose prowess was overshadowed by his success in other fields of writing. White’s work introduced a new voice, creating an American essay that melded seriousness and political resolve with humor and self-deprecation. This book is one of the first to consider and reflect on the contributions of E. B. White to the personal essay tradition and American culture more generally. The American Essay in the American Century is a compelling, highly readable book that illuminates the history of a secretly beloved literary genre. A work that will appeal to fiction readers, scholars, and students alike, this book offers fundamental insight into modern American literary history and the intersections of literature, culture, and class through the personal essay. This thoroughly researched volume dismisses, once and for all, the “death of the essay,” proving that the essay will remain relevant for a very long time to come.
Author : L. Brake
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230005705
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
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Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268059
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
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Author : Joseph Frank
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813516431
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496206274
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566894964
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486115771
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
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