Language Arts & Disciplines

A fine scholarly collection that evokes the pre-WW I era when some 1,300 foreign-language newspapers served America's immigrant millions. It consists of essays by qualified scholars on the newspapers of 27 immigrant groups, ranging from the important German and Jewish presses to comparatively obscure...

Author: Patrick WilsonPublisher: PraegerPublished: 08/24/1983Pages: 211Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56dISBN: 9780313237638

Author: Donald F. JoycePublisher: PraegerPublished: 01/28/1983Pages: 249Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75dISBN: 9780313233326About the Authoryce /f Donald /i Franklin

Writers seeking to create novels and screenplays with genuine layers and depth will find essential insight in Mitchell German's Your Storytelling Potential!After studying filmmaking and screenwriting at NYU--one of the premier film studies programs in the United States (if not the world)--Mitchell German graduated...

The truth about English is that it can get pretty boring. Dangling modifiers, gerunds, punctuation marks--it's enough to make you want to drop out of high school. Swearing and sex on the other hand, well, these time-honored pastimes warm the cockles of our hearts....

No one is immune to writer's block. From well-known novelists to students writing term papers, Ph.D. candidates, and associates in business and law firms, most anyone who writes has experienced either brief moments or longer periods when the words simply won't come. Based on...

The Only Writing Book You'll Ever Need From the legendary creator of the Writer's Loft in Chicago, comes a writing course for those who want to see results now. Immediate Fiction covers the entire process of writing including manuscript preparation, time management, finding an...

Myths, says James N. Frey, are the basis of all storytelling, and their structures and motifs are as powerful for contemporary writers as they were for Homer. In The Key, novelist and fiction-writing coach Frey applies his popular Damn Good approach to Joseph Campbell's...

An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical advice about craft, the book includes chapters on: Accessing raw voiceListening to voices...

In the English language, swearing is essential to effective communication. In this hilarious and illuminating guide, you will learn just how to do it - no f*cking problem. Whether you want to succeed in business, school, or social circles, a strong command of vocabulary...

Learn and practice crucial pre-k language arts skills anytime, anywhere with Sylvan Flashcards Getting comfortable with the alphabet is a big step towards learning to read. These flashcards are designed to help children get ahead, prepare for kindergarten, and develop a love of learning--and...

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a former foreign correspondent who encountered a number of...

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This...

Written and designed for advanced learners of Chinese, this book and its accompanying audio program focus on the variety of linguistic strategies that are essential in real-life communications. The lessons include texts that are representative of current life in China and that are authentic...

In this brilliant new book, a preeminent literary thinker muses over the central question of how we can feel at home in the world, given that the world is independent of and indifferent to our wishes. Drawing on books and films, cultural history and...

An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading," argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines...

An eloquent reminder of why we should care about--and revel in--eloquence in literature and speechOn Eloquence questions the common assumption that eloquence is merely a subset of rhetoric, a means toward a rhetorical end. DenAuthor: Denis DonoghuePublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 01/01/2010Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...

Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered...

This exceptional collection of writings offers for the first time a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion illuminate and challenge each other. The contributors to the volume are eminent theorists and critics inAuthor: Walter JostPublisher: Yale University PressPublished:...

"What line should the critic follow in explicating, unfolding, or unknotting . . . passages? How should the critic thread her or his way into the labyrinthine problems of narrative form?--from chapter I In this brilliant and engaging book, one of America's leading literary...