The Development of the English Novel
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“This thorough and comprehensive work on English fiction is based upon sound scholarship. Professor Cross has mastered his material, and his presentation is not only logical in its general classifications but entirely adequate in its particulars. For these reasons it is an admirable text-book, and the student will find, besides the organic treatment of the whole, a basis for an exhaustive study of independent periods.”—The Washington Star.
By Henry Seidel Canby, Ph.D., Frederick Erastus Pierce, Ph.D., Henry Noble McCracken, Ph.D., Alfred Arundel May, M.A., Thomas Goddard Wright, M.A., of the Department of English Composition in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, New York.
English Composition in Theory and Practice
New and revised edition.
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The authors of this volume have combined in one book a set of directions for good writing, based upon sound principles and written, primarily, for the student, with a varied and extensive collection of examples drawn from all the forms of discourse, and inclusive of both brief excerpts and complete essays, arguments, and stories. Additional supplementary material has been added in the several appendices. The authors have endeavored to give to each of the four forms of discourse the proportionate space and the kind of treatment which the average student requires. The whole composition, the paragraph, the sentence, and the word have been discussed in their relation to Exposition, because, for the average student, it is the power to explain clearly which is of primary importance. Thus Exposition has been given a predominant space. The chapter on the Sentence goes into minute detail because the average student, at present, does not understand the structure of the sentence; the chapter on Narrative deals with constructive problems mainly, because it is in learning to construct a story that the Freshman can best make Narrative increase his powers of expression; the chapter on Description includes literary and esthetic problems, because one variety of Description can only thus be taught. An order of succession for these various topics has been chosen after experiment with many classes. Nevertheless, except that Exposition must come first, the instructor will find that the plan of this book permits any arrangement of subjects.
Guided by the results of two years’ remarkably extensive use of the first edition, the authors revised and rewrote the entire book. In the new edition, therefore, the defects of the earlier work do not appear, while the general plan, which proved so successful, is, of course, retained. Hence the book is now unique in its effectiveness as a teaching text—one in which the actual difficulties of the student are clearly realized, only to be met with practical, definite and concrete means of overcoming them.
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