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This Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It
considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art
of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a
widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording
to style more broadly conceived. The book is concerned not only
with prose fiction but with creative non-fiction, a growing area of
interest for readers and aspiring writers. Written by
internationally-renowned critics, novelists and biographers, the
essays provide readers and writers with ways of understanding the
workings of prose. They are exemplary of good critical practice,
pleasurable reading for their own sake, and both informative and
inspirational for practising writers. The Cambridge Companion to
Prose will serve as a key resource for students of English
literature and of creative writing.
Delphus E. Carpenter (1877-1951) was Colorado's commissioner of
interstate streams during a time when water rights were a legal
battleground for western states. A complex, unassuming man as rare
and cunning in politics and law as the elusive silver fox of the
Rocky Mountain West, Carpenter boldly relied on negotiation instead
of endless litigation to forge agreements among states first,
before federal intervention. In Silver Fox of the Rockies, Daniel
Tyler tells Carpenter's story and that of the great interstate
water compacts he helped create. Those compacts, produced in the
early twentieth century, have guided not only agricultural use but
urban growth and development throughout much of the American West
to this day. In Carpenter's time, most western states relied on the
doctrine of prior appropriation--first in time, first in
right--which granted exclusive use of resources to those who
claimed them first, regardless of common needs. Carpenter feared
that population growth and rapid agricultural development in states
sharing the same river basins would rob Colorado of its right to a
fair share of water. To avoid that eventuality, Carpenter invoked
the compact clause of the U.S. Constitution, a clause previously
used to settle boundary disputes, and applied it to interstate
water rights. The result was a mechanism by which complex issues
involving interstate water rights could be settled through
negotiation without litigating them before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Carpenter believed in the preservation of states' rights in order
to preserve the constitutionally mandated balance between state and
federal authority. Today, water remains critically important to the
American West, and thegreat interstate water compacts Carpenter
helped engineer constitute his most enduring legacy. Of particular
significance is the Colorado River Compact of 1922, without which
Hoover Dam could never have been built.
Some writers of the Victorian period, as well as more recent
critics, have argued that the prose style of Victorian fiction aims
to efface itself or that an absence of style may in itself
represent the nineteenth-century ideal. This collection provides a
major assessment of style in Victorian fiction and demonstrates
that style - the language, techniques and artistry of prose - is
inseparable from meaning and that it is through the many resources
of style that the full compass of meaning makes itself known.
Leading scholars in the field present an engaging assessment of
major Victorian novelists, illustrating how productive and
illuminating close attention to literary style can be.
Collectively, they build a fresh and nuanced understanding of how
style functioned in the literature of the nineteenth century, and
propose that the fiction of this era demands we think about what
style does, as much as what style is.
This Companion provides an introduction to the craft of prose. It
considers the technical aspects of style that contribute to the art
of prose, examining the constituent parts of prose through a
widening lens, from the smallest details of punctuation and wording
to style more broadly conceived. The book is concerned not only
with prose fiction but with creative non-fiction, a growing area of
interest for readers and aspiring writers. Written by
internationally-renowned critics, novelists and biographers, the
essays provide readers and writers with ways of understanding the
workings of prose. They are exemplary of good critical practice,
pleasurable reading for their own sake, and both informative and
inspirational for practising writers. The Cambridge Companion to
Prose will serve as a key resource for students of English
literature and of creative writing.
Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the
Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his
distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays
addresses the essential but often overlooked subject of Dickens's
style, with each essay discussing a particular feature of his
writing. All the essays consider Dickens's style conceptually, and
they read it closely, demonstrating the ways it works on particular
occasions. They show that style is not simply an aesthetic quality
isolated from the deepest meanings of Dickens's fiction, but that
it is inextricably involved with all kinds of historical, political
and ideological concerns. Written in a lively and accessible manner
by leading Dickens scholars, the collection ranges across all
Dickens's writing, including the novels, journalism and letters.
'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday
morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult
question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by
your side?' At the height of his career, around the time he was
working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles
Dickens wrote a series of sketches, mostly set in London, which he
collected as The Uncommercial Traveller. In the persona of 'the
Uncommercial', Dickens wanders the city streets and brings London,
its inhabitants, commerce and entertainment vividly to life.
Sometimes autobiographical, as childhood experiences are interwoven
with adult memories, the sketches include visits to the Paris
Morgue, the Liverpool docks, a workhouse, a school for poor
children, and the theatre. They also describe the perils of travel,
including seasickness, shipwreck, the coming of the railways, and
the wretchedness of dining in English hotels and restaurants. The
work is quintessential Dickens, with each piece showcasing his
imaginative writing style, his keen observational powers, and his
characteristic wit. In this edition Daniel Tyler explores Dickens's
fascination with the city and the book's connections with concerns
evident in his fiction: social injustice, human mortality, a
fascination with death and the passing of time. Often funny,
sometimes indignant, always exuberant, The Uncommercial Traveller
is a revelatory encounter with Dickens, and the Victorian city he
knew so well.
Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the
Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his
distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays
addresses the essential but often overlooked subject of Dickens's
style, with each essay discussing a particular feature of his
writing. All the essays consider Dickens's style conceptually, and
they read it closely, demonstrating the ways it works on particular
occasions. They show that style is not simply an aesthetic quality
isolated from the deepest meanings of Dickens's fiction, but that
it is inextricably involved with all kinds of historical, political
and ideological concerns. Written in a lively and accessible manner
by leading Dickens scholars, the collection ranges across all
Dickens's writing, including the novels, journalism and letters.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1881 Edition.
Poetry in the Making investigates the compositional practices of
Victorian poets, as made evident in the autograph manuscripts of
their poems. Written in an accessible and stimulating style, the
book offers careful readings of individual drafts, paying attention
to the revisions, cancellations, interlineations, trials of rhyme
and form, and sometimes the large structural changes that these
documents reveal. The book shows how manuscript revisions offer
insights into the creative priorities and decisions of major
Victorian poets (Wordsworth, Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough,
Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats); and they
investigate ideas of composition in the period, particularly the
uneasy balance between inspiration and labour. The book testifies
to the care that poets exercised at the smallest levels of their
craft and demonstrates that the drafts reward an equally close
attention on the part of the critic. Collectively, the chapters
develop a survey of how Victorian poets experienced and understood
their own creativity, setting abstract claims about inspiration and
craftsmanship against their own practical experiences. The book
responds to and extends a renewed interest in manuscript sources at
the present time that has been stimulated in part by the increased
availability of digital and facsimile editions. For a long time,
scholarly interest in nineteenth-century literary manuscripts has
been dominated by editorial and theoretical concerns. This book
testifies to the value for criticism of poetic drafts, establishing
the significance of revision and of manuscript studies for the
field of Victorian poetry and for literary scholarship more
generally.
At the height of his career, around the time he was working on
Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens wrote a
series of sketches, mostly set in London, which he collected as The
Uncommercial Traveller. In the persona of 'the Uncommercial',
Dickens wanders the city streets and brings London, its
inhabitants, commerce and entertainment vividly to life. Sometimes
autobiographical, as childhood experiences are interwoven with
adult memories, the sketches include visits to the Paris Morgue,
the Liverpool docks, a workhouse, a school for poor children, and
the theatre. They also describe the perils of travel, including
seasickness, shipwreck, the coming of the railways, and the
wretchedness of dining in English hotels and restaurants. The work
is quintessential Dickens, with each piece showcasing his
imaginative writing style, his keen observational powers, and his
characteristic wit. In this edition Daniel Tyler explores Dickens's
fascination with the city and the book's connections with concerns
evident in his fiction: social injustice, human mortality, a
fascination with death and the passing of time. Often funny,
sometimes indignant, always exuberant, The Uncommercial Traveller
is a revelatory encounter with Dickens, and the Victorian city he
knew so well.
Anton is a little boy who loves to dance. His parents and
grandparents came from many places-England, Scotland, Spain,
Mexico, and Vietnam-and the music and dance of those cultures flow
through him. What's more, when he dances, he brings joy to everyone
around him, because people who see him realize they are happiest
when they dance. Throughout the world, Anton's reputation grows,
and the leaders of many nations invite him to come dance for them
to end conflict and bring about peace. And so he travels around the
world, dancing and spreading hope to people everywhere. But one
day, Anton finds himself in pain and unable to dance. None of his
doctors can figure out what is wrong, and so he goes home, sad and
weary. Will Anton's family be able to help him become the Little
Dancin' Boy once more? In this bilingual children's story, one
little boy, with the help of his family, shows the world that dance
is the international language of peace and harmony.
The Slow Glow of Winter is a number of texts ranging from comedy
and travesty to some more serious. In its brevity it can be read as
a whole or in parts; getting a slice of the cake in the latter
case.
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