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A Guide through Ulysses
Designed to help someone approaching Joyce for the first time reach a quicker understanding of the novel.
In this guide for all writers and speakers of the English language, the author indicates common pitfalls and errors of grammar and syntax and explains how to avoid them. He includes a unique section tackling jargon in specific industries
"An informed and wide-ranging guide to common pitfalls, mistakes and misunderstandings in spoken and written English. It looks at hundreds of words that are frequently used incorrectly or inappropriately; explores everyday grammatical errors; clarifies questions of usage, syntax and style; and draws on examples from contemporary newspapers, magazines and radio programmes."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
This book has a simple thesis: to write well you need to think clearly about what you want to say.Blamires brings the reader's common sense into play to illustrate how by thinking through what you want to say and how you say it, you can communicate both effectively and elegantly. There are a lot of contemporary examples from magazines, books, advertising material and the like to illustrate both good and bad English.
In revising this book, Harry Blamires has updated his final chapters to give a thorough coverage to the work of dramatists, novelists, and poets who have achieved prominence in the 1980s, either as new writers or rediscovered authors who have recently been brought back into print or revived by radio and television.