Writing With Power
Title | Writing With Power PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Elbow |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 1998-07-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199741042 |
A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises promoting it are really not difficult at all. Employing a cookbook approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes: for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition, discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques, how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the production of writing and the revision of it. From students and teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in whatever it is we set down on paper.
Hughes's easy lessons on the mechanical powers, by one of her majesty's inspectors of schools
Title | Hughes's easy lessons on the mechanical powers, by one of her majesty's inspectors of schools PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Hughes (and co.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The description and explanation of a 'universal character'; or, manner of writing, that may be intelligible to the inhabitants of every country
Title | The description and explanation of a 'universal character'; or, manner of writing, that may be intelligible to the inhabitants of every country PDF eBook |
Author | Description |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 1835 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
At Power's Elbow
Title | At Power's Elbow PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Blick |
Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | 227 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1849546401 |
Discreet, inconspicuous, prudent... The perfect prime-ministerial aide is always in the background, a low-profile figure unknown outside the Westminster bubble. Unfortunately, reality often falls short of the ideal; for as long as the office of Prime Minister has existed, its occupants have been supported by a range of colourful individuals who have garnered public interest, controversy and criticism. At Power's Elbow tells their story for the first time, uncovering the truth behind three centuries' worth of prime ministers and their aides. Its subjects range from the early media-managers and election-fixers of Sir Robert Walpole, to the teams supporting the wartime premierships of David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, to the semi-official 'Department of the Prime Minister' established under Tony Blair. Along the way, Andrew Blick and George Jones demonstrate how these essential advisers can be a source of both solace and strife to their chiefs, solving and causing problems in almost equal measure. Above all, they reveal how a Prime Minister's approach to his staff can define his premiership, for better or for worse.
Power
Title | Power PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1224 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Machinery |
ISBN |
Networking the Nation
Title | Networking the Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Chapman |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-07-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191035459 |
How did nineteenth-century women's poetry shift from the poetess poetry of lyric effusion and hyper-femininity to the muscular epic of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh? Networking the Nation re-writes women's poetic traditions by demonstrating the debt that Barrett Browning's revolutionary poetics owed to a circle of American and British women poets living in Florence and campaigning in their poetry and in their salons for Italian Unification. These women poets—Isa Blagden, Elizabeth Kinney, Eliza Ogilvy, and Theodosia Garrow Trollope—formed with Barrett Browning a network of poetry, sociability, and politics, which was devoted to the mission of campaigning for Italy as an independent nation state. In their poetic experiments with the active lyric voice, in their forging of a transnational persona through the periodical press, in their salons and spiritualist séances, the women poets formed a network that attempted to assert and perform an independent unified Italy in their work. Networking the Nation maps the careers of these expatriate women poets who were based in Florence in the key years of Risorgimento politics, racing their transnational social and print communities, and the problematic but schismatic shift in their poetry from the conventional sphere of the poetess. In the fraught and thrilling engagement with their adopted nation's revolutionary turmoil, and in their experiments with different types of writing agency, the women poets in this book offer revolutions of other kinds: revolutions of women's poetry and the very act of writing.
Power and the Engineer
Title | Power and the Engineer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1278 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Machinery |
ISBN |