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  title info:
    title: Performing prose
    sub title: the study and practice of style in composition
  name:
    name part: Holcomb, Chris
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "In Performing Prose, authors Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth breathe new life into traditional concepts of style. Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate the use of style as a vehicle for performance, a way for writers to project themselves onto the page while managing their engagement with the reader. By addressing style and rhetoric not as an editorial afterthought, but as a means of social interaction, they equip students with the vocabulary and tools to analyze the styles of others in fresh ways, as well as create their own. Whereas most writing texts focus exclusively on analysis or techniques to improve writing, Holcomb and Killingsworth blend these two schools of thought to provide a singular process of thinking about writing. They discuss not only the benefits of conventional methods, but also the use of deviation from tradition; the strategies authors use to vary their style; and the use of such vehicles as images, tropes, and schemes. The goal of the authors is to provide writers with stylistic "footing": an understanding of the ways writers use style to orchestrate their relationships with readers, subject matter, and rhetorical situations. Packed with useful tips and insights, this comprehensive volume investigates every aspect of style and its use to present an indispensable resource for both students and scholars. Performing Prose moves beyond customary studies to provide a refreshing and informative approach to the concepts and strategies of writing"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Motives of style -- Convention and deviation -- Distinction : from voice to footing -- The rhetorical tradition -- Tropes -- Schemes -- Images -- Rituals of language -- Style and culture -- Appendix on grammar.
  note: Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Style
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Composition and exercises
  subject:
    topic: Anglais (Langue)
    topic: Stylistique
  subject:
    topic: Anglais (Langue)
    topic: Composition et exercices
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Composition & Creative Writing
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
    topic: Rhetoric
  subject:
    topic: REFERENCE
    topic: Writing Skills
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Composition and exercises
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Style
  classification: PE1408 .H6647 2010eb
  classification: 808/.042
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    title info:
      title: Performing prose
    name:
      name part: Holcomb, Chris.
    origin info:
      publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010
    identifier: (DLC) 2009030705
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    title info:
      title: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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    record creation date: 090730
    record change date: 20251126161735.2
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng