Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on numerous examples from a range of authors and genres, this title demonstrates 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. It equips students with the vocabulary and tools to analyze the styles of others in fresh ways.
Trade Review"In this innovative text, Holcomb and Killingsworth recapture style's rightful place in the generation of prose rather than just a step in editing already-written text. In the process, they manage to incorporate everything the Western rhetorical and literary tradition ever knew about style and have it all make sense together." - Barbara Johnstone, author of Discourse Analysis "Not only is this book smart and inspirational in terms of explanations, examples, and exercises, but it's also fun! What a pleasure it will be to teach from this twenty-first century Ludus Literarius." - Cheryl Glenn, author of Rhetoric Retold and Unspoken"
