Figures of Speech 60 ways to turn a phrase by Arthur Quinn
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T rhetoric, composition, or critical theory will wish to own-and plunder, for ideas, insights, understanding, and jokes. A brilliant job." HAYDEN WHITE, Professor ofthe History of Conciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Metahistory and Tropics of Discourse Quinn has managed to do what I would have thought impossible: turned a discussion of dozens of rhetorical figures-hyperbaton, hendiadys, isolcolon-into a book
that is a delight to read-and a living refutation of most current rules of style. Offering examples that range from the Bible through Shakespeare and James Joyce to Joe Jacobs, he quietly and wittily demonstrates that-but why should 1, by giving away his show, commit hysteronprotoron?
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