TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Francis-Noël
AU  - Turner,Mark
TI  - Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400887354
AV  - PE1408 .T4155 2017
U1  - 808/.042 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Style
KW  - Exposition (Rhetoric)
KW  - Report writing
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abstraction
KW  - Accessibility
KW  - Active voice
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Antithesis
KW  - Approximation
KW  - Areopagitica
KW  - Classical language
KW  - Colloquialism
KW  - Concept
KW  - Conflation
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Deed
KW  - Distraction
KW  - Divine providence
KW  - Elizabeth Eisenstein
KW  - Empiricism
KW  - Erudition
KW  - Essay
KW  - Etiquette
KW  - Family resemblance
KW  - Figure of speech
KW  - Fine art
KW  - Formality
KW  - Greatness
KW  - Handbook
KW  - Heuristic
KW  - Hilary Putnam
KW  - Humility
KW  - Ideogram
KW  - Image schema
KW  - Inception
KW  - Informality
KW  - Ingenuity
KW  - Introspection
KW  - Invention
KW  - Irony
KW  - James Thurber
KW  - Julian Barnes
KW  - Kenneth Burke
KW  - Lady Catherine de Bourgh
KW  - Lettres provinciales
KW  - Level of detail
KW  - Linguistic competence
KW  - Mark Twain
KW  - Metonymy
KW  - Mr
KW  - Narrative
KW  - New Thought
KW  - Obfuscation
KW  - On Truth
KW  - Optimism
KW  - Oracle
KW  - Parody
KW  - Peor
KW  - Persuasive writing
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Phrase
KW  - Piety
KW  - Plain English
KW  - Platitude
KW  - Prima facie
KW  - Printing
KW  - Prose
KW  - Provenance
KW  - Reasonable person
KW  - Religion
KW  - Result
KW  - Righteousness
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Science
KW  - Self-interest
KW  - Selfishness
KW  - Sentimentality
KW  - Silliness
KW  - Simile
KW  - Sincerity
KW  - Sir Thomas Elyot
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Sophistication
KW  - Special pleading
KW  - Spoken language
KW  - Standard English
KW  - Subtitle (captioning)
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - The Elements of Style
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - Theorem
KW  - Thought
KW  - Thucydides
KW  - Treatise
KW  - Understanding
KW  - Understatement
KW  - Verbosity
KW  - White's
KW  - Writing style
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CLEAR AND SIMPLE AS THE TRUTH --; ONE: PRINCIPLES OF CLASSIC STYLE --; TWO: THE MUSEUM --; THREE: FURTHER READINGS IN CLASSIC PROSE --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards.In the first half of Clear and Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing.The second half of the book is a tour of examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887354
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