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。

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)

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。

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.

‘A visual feast of a book …  profiles of the most daring, innovative and influential designers and labels at the core of Japan’s take on style and a pop culture retrospective that features a tasty blend of commentary from luminaries such as Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Agnes B’ – Dazed & Confused ‘Style bible … inspirational’ – The Daily Telegraph The dizzying combination of ...(展开全部)

From the Back Cover Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Ninth Edition Joseph M. Williams Why have thousands of college writers loved–and learned from–this book? Listen to what Joseph Williams has to say: “The ninth edition of Style aims at answering the same questions I asked in the earlier ones: * What is it in a sentence that makes readers judge it as they do? * How do we di...(展开全部)