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The conspiracy against Hitler in the twilight war

History

Deutsch, Harold C.

Military

The University of Minnesota Press

How can one distinguish in any text between features answering to the timeless function of its type and those accountable to passing tendencies of periods, fashions, schools, and individual writers? This study is addressed to that general question, and, while it is not a writer's manual in any sense, it should prove enlightening and helpful to anyone with a genuine interest in style.  The author identifies, with concreteness as to detail and illustration, the styles of five broad types of non-metrical communication in spoken or written discourse that have been conspicuous in the culture or life of the western world from remote times. He names these styles the deliberative, the expository, the tumbling, the prophetic, and the indenture. In discussing each, he explains how each set of features is the virtually inevitable articulation of the purpose of a type of transaction the conditions of which have remained constant from age to age. He demonstrates, for example, that there are striking elementary affinities between such otherwise dissimilar works as the Sermon on the Mount and Lamb's "Dissertation upon Roast Pig," or between Beowulf and a modern-day newspaper sports column.  Dudley Fitts comments: "This is a popular book for the literate public: no ‘easy,' not ‘superficial,' but clearly not recondite."  The book will be especially interesting to professional writers, as well as to students and teachers of literature.  This is Volume 1, Minnesota Monographs in the Humanities, of which Gerhard H. Weiss is the series editor.

Prose Styles; Five Primary Types (Minnestoa Monographs in the Humanities)

Brown, Huntington

Life History Research in Psychopathology: v. 1

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Roff, Merrill and Ricks, David F.

Psychology & Counseling

Edward F. Ricketts, a marine biologist who lived on the Monterey waterfront in California, was a close friend of John Steinbeck, the novelist. As Professor Astro makes clear, no analysis of Steinbeck’s writing can proceed without a careful study of the life, work, and ideas of Ricketts, who was Steinbeck’s closest personal and intellectual companion for nearly two decades. 
 Ricketts went to California from Chicago in 1923, and from that time until his death in 1948 he operated a biological supply house at Pacific Grove. Steinbeck and Ricketts met in 1930 and struck an immediate friendship. Together they planned a handbook on the marine invertebrates of the San Francisco Bay region. Although this project was never carried out, it paved the way for another venture, a collecting expedition to the Gulf of California which resulted in their collaboration on Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, the published record of that trip. As Professor Astro points out, Ricketts served, in varying degrees, as the source of characters in six of Steinbeck’s novels and novelettes and one short story. Perhaps more importantly, the author shows that many of Steinbeck’s central thematic tenets were provided by Ricketts’ passion for holistic and ecological thinking, his associational beliefs about the behavior of men and animals in groups, and his disdain for the acquisition of material wealth. But, he warns, "to say that all of Steinbeck’s concern with science in general and with marine biology in particular came directly from Ricketts is to distort the facts." 
 By analyzing the range and depth of Ricketts’ impact on Steinbeck’s fiction, this book places a major writer in fresh perspective. 
 Richard Astro is an associate professor of English at Oregon State University.

John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: the shaping of a novelist

Astro, Richard

Literature & Fiction

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