J. Mitchell Morse’s textbook on English prose style.
Author(s): Josiah Mitchell Morse
Edition: 1
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Year: 1968
Language: English
Pages: 318
Tags: style, prose, prose style
* INTRODUCTION: Good Tea, Good Mayonnaise, Good Prose, 3
* BALANCED STYLES, 13
** Symmetry, Balance, Antithesis, Parallelism, 15
** Ancient, Medieval, and Early English-Renaissance Classicists, 21
*** Isocrates, 22
*** Cicero, 24
*** Sallust, 26
*** Seneca, 27
*** Tacitus, 27
*** St. Ambrose, 28
*** St. Augustine, 28
*** St. Anselm of Canterbury, 31
*** Bishop Hugh Latimer, 33
*** Thomas Lever, 34
*** Roger Ascham, 35
*** EXERCISES, 36
** Euphuism, 38
*** John Lyly, 39
*** Robert Greene, 43
*** Thomas Lodge, 4
*** Henry Chettle, 48
*** Jobn Florio, 49
*** EXERCISE, 50
** Neo-Classicism, 50
*** Isaac Newton, 55
*** Samuel Johnson, 59
*** Edward Gibbon, 63
*** Edmund Burke, 66
*** Thomas Paine, 69
*** Thomas Babington Macaulay, 70
*** P. T. Barnum, 71
*** EXERCISES, 72
* VARIETIES OF POETIC PROSE, 77
** The King James Bible, 86
** Lafcadio Hearn, 88
** Oscar Wilde, 93
** Francis W. Bain, 95
** Sir Thomas Malory, 97
** James Joyce, 99
** Isak Dinesen, 101
** Vladimir Nabokov, 102
** Samuel Beckett, 103
** EXERCISES, 105
* RABELAISIAN STYLES, 109
** Francois Rabelais, 114
** William Shakespeare, 122
** Thomas Dekker, 125
** Laurence Sterne, 127
** Herman Melville, 134
** James Joyce, 137
** EXERCISES, 138
* SOME VICTORIAN STYLES, 141
** Thomas Carlyle, 147
** Charles Dickens, 152
** John Ruskin, 180
** Henry James, 185
** EXERCISES, 188
* SOME TWENTIETH-CENTURY STYLES, 191
** James Joyce, 198
** Gertrude Stein, 204
** Ernest Hemingway, 242
** William Faulkner, 245
** John Dos Passos, 249
** Samuel Beckett, 261
** Vladimir Nabokov, 264
** Thorstein Veblen, 266
** EXERCISES, 269
* APPENDICES, 273
1. “The Prankquean”: A Fairy Tale from FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, 275
2. “The Ear and the Mouth,” by André Spire, 279
3. “Calder’s Mobiles,” by Jean-Paul Sartre, 312
* POSTSCRIPT, 317
