Reviews for A woman's place

The average rating for A woman's place based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-21 00:00:00 Josh Margolis Very important book. The best modern book on rhetoric. Clear, detailed, readable, and pretty much complete. Kinneavy was my mentor in graduate school. If you want to understand discourse, writing, film, any form of communnication, Kinneavy is the place to start. This book is his great work. He has some other books that are less technical and also good.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-02 00:00:00 Matthew Meintel What I thought I enjoyed most about this book was the simple and easy-to-understand way it presented the theories on writing about literature. But then, I've read several books about writing or reading and so most of the topics presented here were just reminders and that probably made my reading easy. However, the excerpts or short stories used as examples were spot on. It made me think that the authors, Sylvan Banet and William E. Cain must really know their stuff to come out with the choicest examples that are available. One noteworthy short story was James Joyce (1882-1941) obscure short story, Araby. I liked it very very much. The book is composed of 15 chapters. Each chapter is introduced with scintillating quotes on literature by famous authors. My favorites are the following:"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality."- Milan KunderaI found this striking because this was also mentioned by our local well-admired author, F. Sionil Jose. Authors have the role to inform the public. "Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that mankind has yet invented."-John UpdikeI think this is true. When we write something that we know and have been doing for many years, we still find something to improve or just to ponder."Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."- Angela CarterSo why was it that this young group of writers complain about how we treat their book? There is this new group of writers here in Manila that went berserk because we criticized their work. They took this personally."The best of all ways to make one's reading valuable is to write about it."- Ralph Waldo Emerson That's why I am writing reviews."The Golden Rules of writing: Read, read, read, and Write, write, write."- Ernest Gaines.That's why I read unceasingly and write as soon I finish a book. Each chapter ends with a summary of the points in the chapter: "A Quick Review" and peppered with a lot of "Rules for Writers." It is nice to have many siblings.