The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover, and a guide to literary forms.

The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover, and a guide to literary forms.

Cristina Videira Lopes 是美国加州大学欧文分校，唐纳德•布伦信息与计算机科学学院信息学专业教授，研究方向是大规模数据和系统下的软件工程。在其职业生涯早年，曾是施乐帕罗奧多研究中心（Xerox PARC）面向方向编程及AspectJ编程语言团队的初创成员。除其研究项目以外，Cristina也是一位多产的软件开发者。她对于开源项目的贡献包括水下声纳调制解调软件和虚拟世界服务OpenSimulator。她是一家专注于为早期可持续城市重建项目提供在线虚拟现实服务的公司的联合创始人。她开发并维护了一款基于OpenSimulator虚拟世界的搜索引擎。

Cristina Videira Lopes 是美国加州大学欧文分校，唐纳德•布伦信息与计算机科学学院信息学专业教授，研究方向是大规模数据和系统下的软件工程。在其职业生涯早年，曾是施乐帕罗奧多研究中心（Xerox PARC）面向方向编程及AspectJ编程语言团队的初创成员。除其研究项目以外，Cristina也是一位多产的软件开发者。她对于开源项目的贡献包括水下声纳调制解调软件和虚拟世界服务OpenSimulator。她是一家专注于为早期可持续城市重建项目提供在线虚拟现实服务的公司的联合创始人。她开发并维护了一款基于OpenSimulator虚拟世界的搜索引擎。

The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the screenwriter for Taxi Driver , Paul Schrader here analyzes the film style of three great directors—Yasajiro Ozu, Robert Bresson, Carl Dreyer—and posits a common dramatic language by these artists from divergent cultures. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates f...(展开全部)

Proofs without words are generally pictures or diagrams that help the reader see why a particular mathematical statement may be true, and how one could begin to go about proving it. While in some proofs without words an equation or two may appear to help guide that process, the emphasis is clearly on providing visual clues to stimulate mathematical thought. The proofs in this c...(展开全部)

The Desire of Psychoanalysis proposes that recognizing how certain theoretical and institutional problems in Lacanian psychoanalysis are grounded in the historical conditions of Lacan’s own thinking might allow us to overcome these impasses. In order to accomplish this, Gabriel Tupinambá analyzes the socioeconomic practices that underlie the current institutional existence of t...(展开全部)

A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elicits particular kinds of moral judgments and subjective preferences that turn rea...(展开全部)

Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.