Book
Building great sentences: how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read
Plume/Penguin Group
2013
Abstract
Based on the bestselling series from the Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language-and will forever change the way you read and write. Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it's two words ("Jesus wept.") or William Faulkner's 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most important, delight. Yet the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Building Great Sentences teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language. Award-winning professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences-including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson-to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions, providing the tools to write powerful, more effective sentences. --Book jacket.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Building great sentences: how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read
- Creators
- Brooks Landon - University of Iowa, English
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Plume/Penguin Group; New York, New York
- ISBN
- 9780452298606; 0452298601
- Number of pages
- xv, 267 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9983992496802771
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