Building Great Sentences : How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read (9780452298606)
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 importantly, 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.
Product details
- Paperback | 288 pages
- 135 x 202 x 15mm | 215g
- 25 Jun 2013
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- PLUME
- New York, United States
- English
- 0452298601
- 9780452298606
- 81,252
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