The Fighting Style: Reading the Unabomber's Strunk and White
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| Title: | The Fighting Style: Reading the Unabomber's Strunk and White |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Prendergast, Catherine |
| Source: | College English. Sep 2009 72(1):10-28. |
| Availability: | National Council of Teachers of English. 1111 West Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Tel: 877-369-6283; Tel: 217-328-3870; Web site: http://www.ncte.org/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 19 |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Descriptors: | Authors, Writing (Composition), Emotional Response, Psychopathology, Literary Styles, Printed Materials, Ownership, Terrorism, Revision (Written Composition), Motivation, Violence |
| ISSN: | 0010-0994 |
| Abstract: | The fiftieth anniversary of the Strunk and White edition of "The Elements of Style" is an appropriate occasion for considering its enormous popularity. Especially interesting is the esteem for the book held by Theodore Kaczynszki, convicted as the Unabomber. His embrace of Strunk and White's values points to a kind of violence and primitivist nostalgia in their ideology of style. (Contains 9 notes.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 40 |
| Entry Date: | 2009 |
| Access URL: | https://www.ncte.org/journals/ce/issues/v72-1 |
| Accession Number: | EJ855968 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | The fiftieth anniversary of the Strunk and White edition of "The Elements of Style" is an appropriate occasion for considering its enormous popularity. Especially interesting is the esteem for the book held by Theodore Kaczynszki, convicted as the Unabomber. His embrace of Strunk and White's values points to a kind of violence and primitivist nostalgia in their ideology of style. (Contains 9 notes.) |
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| ISSN: | 0010-0994 |
