The establishment of modern English prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment
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Author
Publication
1998 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
54,500 words, Guess
Page Count
218 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL688283M
- ISBN-100521480884
- OCLC Control Number504207490
- OCLC Control Number37721299
- Internet Archiveestablishmentofm0000robi
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- Library of Congress Control Number97035275
- Goodreads3513882
Classifications
- DDC828/.08
- LCCPR751 .R63 1998
Description
In The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment, Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as an art form that was theorised in a manner quite distinct from verse. Robinson argues that the sentence is a stylistic as well as a grammatical conception. Engaging with the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, combining literary criticism with linguistic and textual analysis. He shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world.
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