內容簡介
Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences. The New York Times columnist and world-class professor has long been an aficionado of language. Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant play-by-play.
In this entertaining and erudite gem, Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). How to Write a Sentence is both a spirited love letter to the written word and a key to understanding how great writing works; it is a book that will stand the test of time.
作者簡介
Stanley Fish is a professor of law at Florida International University in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University. He is the author of fourteen books, most recently Fugitive in Flight and Save the World on Your Own Time. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.
精彩書評
New York Times columnist and college professor Fish appreciates fine sentences the way some people appreciate fine wine. In 10 short chapters, Fish takes readers through a cogent analysis of how to craft a sentence. He talks about form, content, and style, always taking care to illustrate his points with an ample selection of judicously chosen quotations from virtuoso writers, from Milton and Shakepeare to Anton Scalia and Elmore Leonard. He then proceeds to drill down into the quotations, zeroing in on the tense, parts of speech, or precise phrasing that make the sentences sing. He also discusses famous first and last lines, always keeping in the forefront the extraordinary power of language to shape reality. And, befitting his subject matter, he does all this in the most luminous prose. He fluidly conveys the nitty-gritty details of crafting sentences, but, even more impressive, he communicates and instills in readers a deep appreciation for beautiful sentences that “do things the language you use every day would not have seemed capable of doing.” Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing.
--Joanne Wilkinson
“How to Write a Sentence isn’t merely a prescriptive guide to the craft of writing but a rich and layered exploration of language as an evolving cultural organism. It belongs not on the shelf of your home library but in your brain’s most deep-seated amphibian sensemaking underbelly.”
--Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
“[Fish’s] approach is genially experiential—a lifelong reader’s engagement whose amatory enthusiasm is an attempt to overthrow Strunk & White’s infamous insistences on grammar by rote.”
--New York Observer
“In this small feast of a book Stanley Fish displays his love of the English sentence. His connoisseurship is broad and deep, his examples are often breathtaking, and his analyses of how the masterpieces achieve their effects are acute and compelling.”
--New Republic
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One[如何寫一個句子] 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One[如何寫一個句子] 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 格式 2024
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One[如何寫一個句子] 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf 電子書
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很輕巧,希望對自己的學習有幫助。
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它能讓我們知天地、曉人生。它能讓我們陶冶性情,不以物喜,不以物悲。
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還沒開始看,作為工具書備在案頭還是很有用的。
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無論是在公共汽車上翻閱消遣,還是在茶餘飯後靜坐捧讀、托腮沉思,都會使你進入一種興趣盎然、
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書總給我一種輕便自然的感覺。非常喜歡。
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可以
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當你孤獨寂寞時讀書,它就像佳人乍到,給你送來瞭清新的問候和舒適的撫慰,
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One[如何寫一個句子] 英文原版 [平裝] mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式下載 2024