Developmental Exercises for Rules for Writers
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Developmental Exercises for Rules for Writers by Wanda Van Goor
This book examines four seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers concerned with the ways in which the commercial print trade was transforming traditional models of literary authority and immortality. While all were excited by the memorial potential of the printed book, they also betray a profound anxiety about how the new conditions of authorship would effect the transmission of cultural memory, and their ability to participate in and even control that process. This study contributes to the current pursuit-in both literary studies and the social sciences-of histories of memory in Western culture, employing current scholarship from the social and natural sciences to delineate the nature of modern memory.
Diana Hacker personally class-tested her handbooks with nearly four thousand students over thirty-five years at Prince George s Community College in Maryland, where she was a member of the English faculty. Hacker handbooks, built on innovation and on a keen understanding of the challenges facing student writers, are the most widely adopted in America. Hacker handbooks, all published by Bedford/St. Martin s, include The Bedford Handbook, Eighth Edition (2010); A Writer s Reference, Seventh Edition (2011); Rules for Writers, Sixth Edition (2008); and A Pocket Style Manual, Fifth Edition (2008).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312678074 |
| ISBN 10 | 031267807X |
| Title | Developmental Exercises for Rules for Writers |
| Author | Wanda Van Goor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford/St. Martin's |
| Year published | 2011-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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