Voices in the wilderness
Patricia Roberts-Miller
This persuasive analysis of Puritan public discourse and its social consequences offers significant new ideas about the influence of Puritan language practices on American cultural identity.
Read Time: ~3.2 hr
Style as argument
by Chris Anderson (1987)
About this book
"Taking the position that style has value in its own right, that language forms a major component of the story that a nonfiction writer has to tell, [Chris] Anderson anaylzes the work of America's foremost practioners of New Journalism -- Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Joan Didion."--Jacket.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreStyle as argument Lead Character
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