The Rise of Modern Prose StyleM.I.T. Press, 1968 - 372 pagina's |
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... utilitarian . -- - as By no means are all the " moderns " as self - consciously utilitarian as Glanvill . But normal prose after the age of Glanvill remains a means of useful communication rather than self - expression or overt artifice ...
... utilitarian . -- - as By no means are all the " moderns " as self - consciously utilitarian as Glanvill . But normal prose after the age of Glanvill remains a means of useful communication rather than self - expression or overt artifice ...
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... utilitarian writing , and most writing was utili- tarian . Dryden and his fellows represented a culmi- nation rather than a beginning . " 49 Many of the voluminous Puritan writings of the first part of the century , to take the chief ...
... utilitarian writing , and most writing was utili- tarian . Dryden and his fellows represented a culmi- nation rather than a beginning . " 49 Many of the voluminous Puritan writings of the first part of the century , to take the chief ...
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... utilitarian than other ages is a question I leave to historians of ideas . I have no doubt , however , that it was utilitarian concerns that mo- tivated the theorists and practitioners of the new prose . Utilitarian prose is written in ...
... utilitarian than other ages is a question I leave to historians of ideas . I have no doubt , however , that it was utilitarian concerns that mo- tivated the theorists and practitioners of the new prose . Utilitarian prose is written in ...
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