TY - BOOK ID - 77887422 TI - Performing prose AU - Holcomb, Chris AU - Killingsworth, M Jimmie PY - 2010 SN - 1280697571 9786613674531 0809385767 9780809385768 9780809329533 0809329530 9781280697579 6613674532 PB - Carbondale DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - English literature KW - Composition and exercises. KW - Style. KW - Exercises KW - Rhetoric KW - Metrics and rhythmics KW - Style KW - Germanic languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77887422 AB - In Performing Prose, authors Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth breathe new life into traditional concepts of style. Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate 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. By addressing style and rhetoric not as an editorial afterthought, but as a means of social interaction, they equip students with the vocabulary and tools to analyze the styles of others in fres ER -