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The Sound On thePage
The Sound On thePageBen Yagoda
Great Writers Talk about Style andVoice in Writing
Ben Yagoda
Great Writers Talk about Style andVoice in Writing
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information and ideas and
story and characters.How they say it is style.
information and ideas andstory and characters.
How they say it is style.Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
Joan DidionDave Barry
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
Joan DidionDave Barry
Style is unique andirrefutably identifiable,
like a fingerprint
Style is a presentation or
of something essentialabout him and that cannot
be disguised.a mode of
fashion
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StyleStyleWilliam Strunk &
E. B. White
Simplicity, clarity and invisibility
Edward Corbett &Robert Connors
The prime quality of prose style isclarity.
William Zinsser,
Jacques Barzun, PeterRichardson
minimalist and impersonal doctrine
Harold Bloom It outlaws everything that I care forin writing, in
literature, in the act ofwriting.
Joseph Williams Those who write pretentiouslyeliminate simple
verbs.
Jonathan Swift Proper words in proper places; Tohim, an
excellent manner ofexpression is not merely an aid in
communication and persuasion buta reflection of good character
and
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StyleStyle
George Henry Lewes It must be the expression of itsauthors
mindis only madeeffective by such mastery; itsprings from a deeper
source.
Flaubert a supreme aesthetic quality, notjust a vessel for
individualexpression.
Pater a way to achieve a mysticaloneness
Matthew Arnold the needful qualities for a fit proseare
regularity, uniformity, precision,balance.
Samuel Butler A mans style should be likehis dressit should
attract aslittle attention as possible.
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STYLE FROM THEOUTSIDE: The History of
an Idea
STYLE FROM THEOUTSIDE: The History of
an IdeaStilus (meaning a pointed instrument for writing)
what was done with the instrumentthat is, the
way words are arranged.
classical idea of delivery
Greeks (Lexis)- a branch of the art of
oratory(communication)
Gorgias- can be an agent not only ofpersuasion but of beauty
and
expression as well-
Stilus (meaning a pointed instrument for writing)
what was done with the instrumentthat is, the
way words are arranged.
classical idea of delivery
Greeks (Lexis)- a branch of the art of
oratory(communication)
Gor
gias- can be an agent not only ofpersuasion but of beauty
and
expression as well-
STYLE FROM THESTYLE FROM THE
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STYLE FROM THEOUTSIDE: The History of
an Idea
STYLE FROM THEOUTSIDE: The History of
an IdeaCicero res and verba; emphasis on versatility ðos
(moral character)
Demosthenes- locution, locution, and locution
Middle Ages (inscription of religioustext)
Gutenbergs printing press (the choice andarrangement of words);
one could put on anyoutfit that suited ones mood that day, and
themore flamboyant the better
Cicero res and verba; emphasis on versatility ðos (moral
character)
Demosthenes- locution, locution, and locution
Middle Ages (inscription of religioustext)
Gutenbergs printing press (the choice andarrangement of words);
one could put on anyoutfit that suited ones mood that day, and
themore flamboyant the better
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THE THREE NECESSARYELEMENTS OF STYLE
THE THREE NECESSARYELEMENTS OF STYLE
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C HAPTER II
Writing, Speech, and the
Middle Style
C HAPTER II
Writing, Speech, and the
Middle StyleOrnate
perorations of the grand or vigorous
stylesimple words and conversational
manner of the plain or low style (used
for proof and instruction)as a vehicle for pleasure and defined
it
by what it is notnot showy, not highly
figurative
Ornate
perorations of the grand or vigorous
stylesimple words and conversational
manner of the plain or low style (used
for proof and instruction)as a vehicle for pleasure and defined
it
by what it is notnot showy, not highly
figurative
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