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Style
An Anti-textbook
Häftad, 2007
220 kr
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This humorous and accessible classic on style calls for the return of wordplay and delight to writing instruction. Richard Lanham argues that many tomes on writing, with their trio of platitudes-clarity, plainness, sincerity-lie 'upon the spirit like wet cardboard'. People seldom write to be clear. …
Economics of Attention
Style and Substance in the Age of Information
Häftad, 2007
200 kr
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If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. With all the verve and erudition that have …
Electronic Word
Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
Häftad, 1995
331 kr
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The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself.This highly acclaimed collection of Richard …
Electronic Word
Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
E-bok, 2010
516 kr
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The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard …
Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
Häftad, 2012
269 kr
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With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, "A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms" provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms - mostly Greek and Latin - that students of Western literature and rhetoric are likely to come across in their reading or will …
Motives of Eloquence
Literary Rhetoric in the Renaissance
E-bok, 2004
518 kr
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We have in 'The Motives of Eloquence a significant contribution to theory, criticism, and history that graces us with the eloquence of its own motives....For comparatists of all interests and persuasions. - William J. Kennedy, 'Comparative Literature'This is a stunning book....The central thesis of …
Economics of Attention
Style and Substance in the Age of Information
Inbunden, 2006
279 kr
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If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information. With all the verve and erudition that have …