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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Note on texts | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Sentence and period | 1 |
| i | Sentences now | 1 |
| ii | Sentences then | 13 |
| iii | Medieval punctuation | 20 |
| iv | Period | 35 |
| 2 | Prose rhythm | 45 |
| 3 | Syntax and period in Middle English | 59 |
| 4 | Cranmer's commonwealth | 71 |
| i | Tyndale and the Bible | 71 |
| ii | Cranmer's sentences | 82 |
| 5 | Shakespeare vs the wanderers | 105 |
| i | The worst English prose | 105 |
| ii | Shakespeare's prose | 123 |
| iii | Puritan pamphleteers | 131 |
| 6 | Dryden's democracy | 139 |
| 7 | The prose world | 151 |
| App. 1 | The history of the sentence | 166 |
| App. 2 | Medieval punctuation theory | 185 |
| App. 3 | Punctuation in a few manuscripts | 190 |
| App. 4 | Cranmer and the cursus | 200 |
| Texts frequently cited | 209 | |
| Index | 213 |
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reviewed The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment: The Art of Prose Writing from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment on April 09, 2013
The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment: The Art of Prose Writing from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
Mutuality, narrativity, positionalities, intersubjectivity--all the best words are here. If you can stomach this smug, free-floating stuff enough to scratch down to the next level, you may encounter some interesting ideas. Most of the essays are feminist. Several of them address Sappho's audience and whether she sang her songs alone or made them for a chorus. Nothing that will change your life, probably, but sometimes interesting.
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