The Teaching Company: Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft DVD course number 2368
Product Description
Building Great Sentences draws abundantly on examples from the work of brilliant writers who are masters in the craft of writing, including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson. Their novels, essays, and short stories are frequently cited to illustrate how sentences can tease, surprise, test, and satisfy you. Whether it was an epic poem, an 800-page novel, or a passionate op-ed in a local newspaper, you've no doubt been captivated by a particular line, passage, or phrase in something you've read-but you can't understand why. With Building Great Sentences, you get the secrets you need not only to recognize great writing, but also to understand what exactly makes it so great. You also investigate numerous instances in which an author's writing style reflects key points in the lectures. There are 24 lectures which include: A Sequence of Words; Grammar and Rhetoric; Propositions and Meaning; How Sentences Grow; Adjectival Steps; The Rhythm of Cumulative Syntax; Direction of Modification; Coordinate, Subordinate, and Mixed Patterns; Coordinate Cumulative Sentences; Subordinate and Mixed Cumulatives; Prompts of Comparison; Prompts of Explanation; The Riddle of Prose Rhythm; Cumulative Syntax to Create Suspense; Degrees of Suspensiveness; The Mechanics of Delay; Prefab Patterns for Suspense; Balanced Sentences and Balanced Forms; The Rhythm of Twos; The Rhythm of Threes; Balanced Series and Serial Balances; Master Sentences; Sentences in Sequence; Sentences and Prose Style.
