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008			110705s2011 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a2010033166
020			_a9780061840548
050	0	0	_aPE1441 _b.F57 2011
082	0	0	_a808.042 FIS
100	1		_aFish, Stanley Eugene
245	1	0	_aHow to write a sentence _b: and how to read one _c/ Stanley Fish
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Harper _c, 2011.
300			_a165 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aA whole book on the lowly sentence? Stanley Fish, America's English Professor, confides that he belongs "to the tribe of sentence watchers," and shares his passion and learning through an array of examples from sentence-making masters, among them Milton, James, Dr. King, Sterne, Swift, Salinger, Elmore Leonard, Conrad, and Gertrude Stein. For Fish, language is logic. He stresses how the sentence, regardless of length-whether declarative or embroidered with qualifiers-is a structure of logical relationships. He discusses the all-important opening sentence and closing sentence, especially as the latter can be isolated from its dramatic context to convey full rhetorical effect. The reader is advised to begin with form; with practice, writers can develop three basics of style (subordinating, additive, satiric) that will allow them to make an emotional impact with their words. In the end, the craft of sentence writing is elevated to the very center of our inner lives.
650		0	_aEnglish language _x--Grammar
650		0	_aEnglish language _x--Rhetoric
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