Building great sentences
Landon, Brooks.
Building great sentences exploring the writer's craft / [videorecording] : Brooks Landon. - Library ed. - Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2008. - 4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.) - The great courses. Literature & English language . - Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language. .
"Course No. 2368" Also issued with 1 course guidebook (2 volumes in 1).
Pt. 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. A sequence of words -- Lecture 2. Grammar and rhetoric -- Lecture 3. Propositions and meaning -- Lecture 4. How sentences grow -- Lecture 5. Adjectival steps -- Lecture 6. The rhythm of cumulative syntax -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Direction of modification -- Lecture 8. Coordinate, subordinate, and mixed patterns -- Lecture 9. Coordinate cumulative sentences -- Lecture 10. Subordinate and mixed cumulatives -- Lecture 11. Prompts of comparison -- Lecture 12. Prompts of explanation. Pt. 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. The riddle of prose rhythm -- Lecture 14. Cumulative syntax to create suspense -- Lecture 15. Degrees of suspensiveness -- Lecture 16. The mechanics of delay -- Lecture 17. Prefab patterns for suspense -- Lecture 18. Balanced sentences and balanced forms -- Disc. 4. Lecture 19. The rhythm of twos -- Lecture 20. The rhythm of threes -- Lecture 21. Balanced series and serial balances -- Lecture 22. Master sentences -- Lecture 23. Sentences in sequence -- Lecture 24. Sentences and prose style.
Taught by Prof. Brooks Landon, University of Iowa.
DVD.
1598034480 9781598034486 1598034499 (text : pbk.)
2368 Teaching Company
English language--Rhetoric.
Linguistics.
PE1408 / .L288 DVD
Building great sentences exploring the writer's craft / [videorecording] : Brooks Landon. - Library ed. - Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2008. - 4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.) - The great courses. Literature & English language . - Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language. .
"Course No. 2368" Also issued with 1 course guidebook (2 volumes in 1).
Pt. 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. A sequence of words -- Lecture 2. Grammar and rhetoric -- Lecture 3. Propositions and meaning -- Lecture 4. How sentences grow -- Lecture 5. Adjectival steps -- Lecture 6. The rhythm of cumulative syntax -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Direction of modification -- Lecture 8. Coordinate, subordinate, and mixed patterns -- Lecture 9. Coordinate cumulative sentences -- Lecture 10. Subordinate and mixed cumulatives -- Lecture 11. Prompts of comparison -- Lecture 12. Prompts of explanation. Pt. 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. The riddle of prose rhythm -- Lecture 14. Cumulative syntax to create suspense -- Lecture 15. Degrees of suspensiveness -- Lecture 16. The mechanics of delay -- Lecture 17. Prefab patterns for suspense -- Lecture 18. Balanced sentences and balanced forms -- Disc. 4. Lecture 19. The rhythm of twos -- Lecture 20. The rhythm of threes -- Lecture 21. Balanced series and serial balances -- Lecture 22. Master sentences -- Lecture 23. Sentences in sequence -- Lecture 24. Sentences and prose style.
Taught by Prof. Brooks Landon, University of Iowa.
DVD.
1598034480 9781598034486 1598034499 (text : pbk.)
2368 Teaching Company
English language--Rhetoric.
Linguistics.
PE1408 / .L288 DVD