Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction

by Chris Anderson

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Taking the position that style has a value in its own right, that language forms a major component of the story a nonfiction writer has to tell, Anderson analyzes the work of America's foremost practitioners of New Journalism--Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion.

Anderson does for nonfiction what insightful critics have long been doing for fiction and poetry. His approach is rhetorical, and his message is that the rhetoric...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0809313146

ISBN13:9780809313143

Release Date:February 1987

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Rhetoric Words, Language & Grammar

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