Style: An Anti-Textbook

212-page paperback / 5" x 8" / ISBN 978-1-58988-032-0 / Publication Date: July 2007 Why do so many writing courses, with their earnest handbooks and narrow focus on "clarity," bore students and fail to teach them how to write well? Richard Lanham provides answers, and an antidote, in the seven witty and provocative chapters of Style: An Anti-Textbook. 1. THE PROSE PROBLEM AND "THE BOOKS" 2. THE USESOF OBSCURITY ¤ 3. THE OPAQUE STYLE ¤ 4. THE DELIGHTSOF JARGON ¤ 5. POETIC PROSE ¤ 6. ESSENTIALHYPOCRACIES ¤ 7. THE ULTIMATE MORALITY OF MIND A new program, one that emphasizes writing as "pleasure rather than duty" and allows "words to escape from the penalty box and get back to skating" is Lanham's goal with this updated and expanded edition of his classic. The Anti-Textbook is back! Also available as an ebook: Amazon Apple iTunes Bookstore Barnes & Noble Google Play Kobo (See IndieBound's list of independent booksellers selling e-books.) "People seldom write to be clear. They have