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And, for not a few readers, there’s the additional kick of feeling that they’re getting away with something. Suitable for students looking to focus their writing or those looking for a pocket-sized quick reference, this book will help students make effective choices for academic work and understand the conventions of formal written English.

Literature is bunk,” he retorted, propagated by “fancy boys, clever-clever darlings, stream-of-consciousness ladies and gents, and editorial novelists”—in other words, a bunch of literary dudes. The passage I’ve cited is the opening of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “Tarzan of the Apes,” whose centennial is being commemorated by the Library of America’s publication, this year, of the original pulp novel.

Software has been updated to use with the VALCON type RB26 included in V CAM SYSTEM for RB26 (P/N 22007-AN017, 22007-AN018, and 22007-AN019). In the mid-eighteenth century, there was a hovering suspicion that novels were for people not really serious about literature. He seems positively heartened by the thought that such books remind us “that art is not the same thing as cerebration,” that, in effect, intelligence could be a hindrance to writing fiction; otherwise, every intelligent critic would be capable of writing a readable novel. When Matthew Arnold keeled over, in April, 1888, while hurrying to catch the Liverpool tram, Walt Whitman managed to contain his grief. He had studied the classics at the Dulwich College preparatory school, in London, and regarded himself as “just a fellow who jacked up a few pulp novelettes into book form.

Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. And part of the pleasure we derive from them is the knowledge that we could be reading something better, something that, in the words of Arnold, reflects “the best that has been thought and said in this world.

Prior to this appointment, Lunsford was Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-2000).

A new chapter, “Language and Identity” helps students think more openly and carefully about the language we claim as our own and about language used to label us and others. A focus on critical thinking and argument helps students read a variety of texts and compose effective arguments.

Indeed, fiction in the age of modernism became as much identified with literature as poetry or plays, and its complexities required a new class of expert readers, a secular clergy capable of explaining its mysteries. In 1929, the eminent Milton scholar Marjorie Nicolson, the first female president of Phi Beta Kappa, described a dinner party rescued from the brink of dullness when the desperate hostess asked a distinguished scholar to name “the most significant book of recent years.

This new approach invites students to expect and engage difference and provides strategies for communicating respectfully with others across differences. appeared to be an easy-to-use word processor for casual users, it "contains a few very annoying inconveniences and some very serious traps". Although properly gratified by Auden’s estimation, Chandler protested that he didn’t know what to make of it.Countermeasures of the false detection by antivirus software that determines the installed software as the virus. She has written or coauthored many books, including Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles.