The Trouble With Words (eBook)

A Commonplace Book

Maxine Ruvinsky (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 1st
234 Seiten
Maxine Ruvinsky (Verlag)
978-1-7782249-1-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Mixing memoir, scholarship, and social commentary, The Trouble With Words uses the ancient technique of commonplacing to produce a series of essays on why language and learning still matter in a world awash in lies, a world increasingly described, blush-free, as "e;post-truth."e; It seeks to counteract the idea that words no longer matter and, while entertaining and engaging readers, to encourage them to take up the practice of keeping a commonplace book-and maybe even to write their own. The book's final chapter offers tips on how best to keep a commonplace book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: none
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: fiction and nonfiction • how to keep a commonplace book. • identity and naming • in praise of grammar • Journalism • language origins and evolution • learning to write • Literacy • Memoir • social inequity • the commonplace book in history • Truth in literature • words and meaning
• ISBN-10: 1-7782249-1-1 / 1778224911
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7782249-1-1 / 9781778224911