Modern American Prose: Fifteen Writers + 15 - Softcover

Clifford, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070113963 ISBN 13: 9780070113961

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1993

Synopsis

Containing four essays by each of 15 important essayists and one essay by each of 15 more major American writers, this reader offers the student a chance to see the range of a writer's work and the creative nature of an esssay. This book has an excellent rhetorical apparatus which, through introductions and questions, provides tools for analytical and evaluating reading.

About this title

About the Author:

John Clifford is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he teaches literature, writing, and theory. During the summer he teaches literary response at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and reading theory at Northeastern's Martha's Vineyard Workshops. He has taught writing at Queens College, CUNY, and was a high school English teacher and chairman for ten years in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Ph.D. in 1977 from New York University

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0070113963
• ISBN 13: 9780070113961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Diyanni Robert