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This book discusses the intersection between philosophy and literature during the British Enlightenment. Its primary focus is the work of moral philosophers during the first half of the eighteenth century, but its larger interest is in understanding how the writing of philosophical fictions relates to the rise of the novel, and the emergence of philosophical aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.
Can a writing textbook inform and entertain? Can a very brief
rhetoric also function as a stand-alone guide to college writing?
Yes and yes. Speaking of Writing is a concise yet comprehensive
rhetoric with readings. Informed by scholarship in Writing Studies,
this book follows four college students from diverse backgrounds as
they face the challenges of reading, writing, and critical thinking
in first-year writing and across the disciplines. Each chapter
engages students in relatable, often humorous scenarios that focus
on key challenges. Through its story-based approach, Speaking of
Writing enacts student-centered and process-based pedagogy, showing
students learning to address fundamental questions: How can I apply
my own strategies for success to new assignments? How can I
maintain my own voice when asked to compose in an academic style?
What do college professors mean by a "thesis," and how is this
different from what my high-school teachers meant? Why is this
argument weak, and how can I make it stronger? The book's narrative
vividly dramatizes a draft-and-revision process that includes
instructor feedback, peer review, and careful research.
This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical
dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why
important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume
- and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in
and about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, after
Hume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoes
radical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the British
Enlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and often
belligerent debate about the nature and proper management of
dialogue; and it shows how the writing of philosophical fictions
relates to the rise of the novel and the emergence of philosophical
aesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austen
are placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of the
empiricist tradition in the context of English literary history.
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Nightingale (Paperback)
Wren McCabe; Edited by Leanore Elliott; Michel Prince
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R330
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