On English Prose - Brossura

Sutherland, James R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1487585497 ISBN 13: 9781487585495

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1957

Riassunto

The varying patterns in the development of English prose from the discursiveness of the fourteenth century to the directness of the twentieth are outlined in this book. The author points out that prose has always developed more slowly and uncertainly than poetry; it has often been hampered, for instance, by a notion that it was different from conversation, more elaborate and deliberate. One of the first and greatest difficulties in the development of English prose style was to create and build a language with its own rhythms against the influence of Norman French and Latin. As he traces the course of English prose history, the author quotes for example an analysis from Sidney, Lyly, Bacon, Hooker, Bunyan, Hobbes, Dryden, Defoe, Meredith, James, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and others.

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Informazioni sull?autore

James Sutherland, formerly Lord Northcliffe Professor Modern Literature at London University, was the editor of The Oxford Book of English Talk and the author of numerous books about literature.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1957
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1487585497
• ISBN 13: 9781487585495
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 136
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile