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Performing Prose The Study and Practice of Style in Composition

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ISBN-10: 0809329530

ISBN-13: 9780809329533

Edition: 2010

Authors: Chris Holcomb, M. Jimmie Killingsworth

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 5/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Chris Holcomb is an Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. His primary research interests include histories of rhetoric, humor, discourse analysis and prose style.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Motives of Style
Convention and Deviation
Distinction: From Voice to Footing
The Rhetorical Tradition
Tropes
Schemes
Images
Rituals of Language
Style and Culture
Appendix on Grammar
Notes
Works Cited
Index