The Province of ProseWilliam R. Keast, Robert E. Streeter Harper, 1956 - 801 Seiten |
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William R. Keast, Robert E. Streeter. The writer's meaning is his language , and his language is his meaning . A piece of writing succeeds when the expression sets up in the reader pre- cisely that sequence of feelings , ideas , and ...
William R. Keast, Robert E. Streeter. The writer's meaning is his language , and his language is his meaning . A piece of writing succeeds when the expression sets up in the reader pre- cisely that sequence of feelings , ideas , and ...
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... meaning . What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word , and not the other way about . In prose , the worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to them . When you think of a concrete object , you think ...
... meaning . What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word , and not the other way about . In prose , the worst thing one can do with words is to surrender to them . When you think of a concrete object , you think ...
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... meaning of the word " Podunk " is obscure , and has given many night sweats to etymologists , for the Indian languages of the seventeenth century are nearly all extinct , and the few , forlorn Indians who still pro- fess to speak them ...
... meaning of the word " Podunk " is obscure , and has given many night sweats to etymologists , for the Indian languages of the seventeenth century are nearly all extinct , and the few , forlorn Indians who still pro- fess to speak them ...
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PART ONE The Writers Problems | 1 |
From The English NoteBooks | 14 |
Three Contemporary Travelers Describe the Western River | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Adams Alistair Cooke American artist boat Braddock cabin called century character civilization Colbatch College Communist cowboy culture described developed DISCUSSION AND WRITING E. B. WHITE E. M. Forster effect English essay example experience expression eyes fact feel Fletcher Pratt Fort Duquesne French give Henry Henry Adams hero Hopalong Cassidy horse human hundred ideas Indians interest kind Kisei knew language learned less live look Mark Twain meaning ment mind modern moral nature never observation paragraph Pargellis party perhaps person phrase Podunk political premises problem reader reason Reprinted seemed sense sentence Shooting an Elephant social society statement steamboat style thing Thoreau thought tion TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION truth turn UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT Walden Walden Pond Western Whig whole words young