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Peer reviewedWoodman, Leonora – English Journal, 1973
Illustrates how a linguistic analysis of Hemingway's prose style can be appealing to a student by being precise instead of vague and being a procedure. (MM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Patterns, Linguistics, Literary Criticism
Cluett, Robert – 1976
This book is based on the York Computer Inventory of Prose Style, which seeks to provide a quantitative description of the syntactic characteristics of the literary language of specific authors over the last 400 years. After a brief theoretical introduction and a description of texts and sampling procedures, the discussion turns to specific…
Descriptors: Databases, Language Patterns, Language Styles, Literary Criticism
Download full textKeneally, Tom – Opinion, The Journal of the South Australian English Teachers' Assn., 1967
The practicing writer encounters four determinants of his use of prose. First, the language itself determines the expression: English, with its wealth of words and styles and with few traditional restrictions, provides problems of choice and temptations to overwrite. Second, the application of verse forms to the novel and a demand for consistently…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Expressive Language, Language
