A short guide to writing about literature vs The writer's book of memory: Which Should You Read?

Cover of A short guide to writing about literature A short guide to writing about literature Sylvan Barnet · 1968 ★★★★☆ 3.7 394 pages · ≈ 7 h 18 m · Challenging

Part of Longman's successful Short Guide Series, A Short Guide to Writing about Literature emphasizes writing as a process and incorporates new critical approaches to writing about literature. The twelfth edition…

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Cover of The writer's book of memory The writer's book of memory Janine Rider · 1995 153 pages · ≈ 2 h 50 m · Moderate

Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as part of a revival of interest in classical rhetoric, scholars have begun to realize…

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Editions 24 6
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