Esquire delivers an entertaining, sophisticated & witty read, balancing interviews, thought provoking writing and quality photography in a stylish, accessible package.
Wendy Bishop and David Starkey have created a remarkable resource volume for creative writing students and other writers just getting started. In two- to ten-page discussions, these authors introduce forty-one central concepts in the fields of creative writing and writing instruction, with discussions that are accessible yet grounded in scholarship and years of experience.
This book develops from a strong claim: namely, that style is meaningful. A textbook may not be the best place to advance a strong claim, so, to make this claim less conspicuous, I could downgrade it by describing it as in keeping with established views. I could point out that few authors of composition textbooks deny the importance of style, and most offer advice on words and sentences. And I could point out that many researchers, especially those working in English for Special Purposes, have analyzed style in the scholarly genres. In turn, these inquiries could be seen as developing the long standing sociol-inguistic idea of "register," the condition which indexes language for use in definable social settings.
Given the fact that you can learn to write and then market your writing skill, this book will serve as your guide. Like any good guide, it is intended to reduce your trepidation as you enter unknown territory. It will help you get started on the right path and maintain an appropriate attitude. It will point out the do's and don'ts within each area of business writing. And, it is hoped, it will leave you on your own, a more confident, competent writer than when you began.
Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. Synopsis: The hermeneutical interpretation of the "discovery" or "conquest" of the New World by the Europeans began the moment Columbus started writing his accounts of his travels and continued through the writing of Shakespeare's The Tempest and to the present day. Hart (Canadian studies and history, Princeton U.), focusing primarily on European narratives, explores how the colonial project was interpreted and contested, with areas of tension hinging on Columbus' representation of the encounter, the figure of Columbus himself, the gendering of America, and in written works of literature.
