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How to Write a Sentence : And How to Read One
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How to Write a Sentence
Author(s): Stanley Fish
Review(s):
“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style.”
“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.”
“[Fish] shares his connoisseurship of the elegant sentence.”
“Stanley Fish just might be America’s most famous professor.”
“How to Write a Sentence is a compendium of syntactic gems—light reading for geeks.”
“How to Write a Sentence isn’t merely a prescriptive guide to the craft of writing but a rich and layered exploration of language as an evolving cultural organism. It belongs not on the shelf of your home library but in your brain’s most deep-seated amphibian sensemaking underbelly.”
“[Fish’s] approach is genially experiential—a lifelong reader’s engagement whose amatory enthusiasm is an attempt to overthrow Strunk & White’s infamous insistences on grammar by rote.”
“In this small feast of a book Stanley Fish displays his love of the English sentence. His connoisseurship is broad and deep, his examples are often breathtaking, and his analyses of how the masterpieces achieve their effects are acute and compelling.”
“A sentence is, in John Donne’s words, ‘a little world made cunningly,’ writes Fish. He’ll teach you the art.”
“This splendid little volume describes how the shape of a sentence controls its meaning.”
ISBN: 9780061840531
Author(s): Stanley Fish
New York Times Bestseller
“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” – Adam Haslett, Financial Times
“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” – Slate
“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.”
—Roy Blount Jr.
In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works.
Review(s):
“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style.”
“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.”
“[Fish] shares his connoisseurship of the elegant sentence.”
“Stanley Fish just might be America’s most famous professor.”
“How to Write a Sentence is a compendium of syntactic gems—light reading for geeks.”
“How to Write a Sentence isn’t merely a prescriptive guide to the craft of writing but a rich and layered exploration of language as an evolving cultural organism. It belongs not on the shelf of your home library but in your brain’s most deep-seated amphibian sensemaking underbelly.”
“[Fish’s] approach is genially experiential—a lifelong reader’s engagement whose amatory enthusiasm is an attempt to overthrow Strunk & White’s infamous insistences on grammar by rote.”
“In this small feast of a book Stanley Fish displays his love of the English sentence. His connoisseurship is broad and deep, his examples are often breathtaking, and his analyses of how the masterpieces achieve their effects are acute and compelling.”
“A sentence is, in John Donne’s words, ‘a little world made cunningly,’ writes Fish. He’ll teach you the art.”
“This splendid little volume describes how the shape of a sentence controls its meaning.”
ISBN: 9780061840531