Tool or trifle: The moral question of style

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07/14/2008

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Table of Contents Tool or trifle: The moral question of style Table of Contents

 
  1. My instruction in writing always seemed to contradict my taste in reading.
  2. Morris W. Croll, a Princeton professor - Historian.
  3. The development of theory regarding style.
  4. Should we even be worrying about sty;e?
  5. The problem with scientific and utilitarian criticism.
  6. In the Bible language is not always means to an end.
  7. The horrible reductionism of much modern writing pedagogy.

Abstract

"You know not what hurt you do to learning that care not for words, but for matter, and so make a divorce betwixt the tongue and the heart." (Roger Ascham)

I am thirteen. Almost every afternoon I shove a book in my pocket, a hat on my head, and I wander out into the scurry-flurry of a Pennsylvania day. By the gardener's shed in the cemetery I listen to the wind whistle round perversely tuneful headstones. Later I wander through Nazirite fields whose grassy hair no razor ever touched. Eventually, I find my favorite little stream and stretch out on the cool moss. I pull the book from my pocket, open it, and begin to read aloud. Here is a music preserved, a music shared with the rest of literate humanity through time and over space, as beautiful as the here-and-gone recital of elements and animals but far more lasting.
I have discovered in days like this, throughout my life, what should not be a secret: prose has purposes beyond persuasion.

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