 | NOTES TOWARD A NEW RHETORIC: 9 Essays for Teachers by Francis Christensen
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $21.49 Christensen explains and illustrates stylistic structures used by all published writers, providing keys for unlocking effective style and a map for finding a personal voice.
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 | Poetics: With the Tractatus Coislinianus, Reconstruction of Poetics II, and the Fragments of the On Poets (Bk. 1) by Aristotle
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $1.86 Best Academic Translation with Reconstruction of Aristotle's 2nd Ch on Comedy.
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 | Poetics by Aristotle
Buy used from: $45.94 Excellent Commentary by O. B. Hardison for Students of Literature and Creative Writing. See the reasonably priced paperbacks.
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 | Aristotle: Poetics by Aristotle
Buy new: $9.31 / Used from: $4.73 The most readable translation and interpretation to date.
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 | On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse by Aristotle
Buy new: $24.56 / Used from: $20.32 Sheds light on Aristotle's Poetics and his theory of metaphor in particular. George Kennedy is a master translator.
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 | The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 2nd Edition by Christopher Vogler
Buy used from: $3.40 Useful Insight into Current Theory of Mythic Structure: Aristotle Meets Jung and Joseph Campbell.
Unless you don't mind reading very small type, stay with the second edition. The third adds a final chapter but reduces the typeface to something like 9-point Times.
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 | The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth
Buy new: $15.04 / Used from: $6.00 This old text still has insights unexplored elsewhere.
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 | The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller by John Truby
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $9.53 Highly advanced how-to-write-a-story text. Shows us how to put it all together.
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 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting by Robert Mckee
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $18.64 Deep, detailed, advanced story-writing theory. Also in paperback.
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 | Don't Sabotage Your Submission: Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A. by Chris Roerden
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $21.08 Excellent and entertaining with good example.
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 | How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide by Howard Mittelmark
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $5.40 Outstanding book with humorous bad examples that show how not to do it, and insightful discussions of how to fix such problems.
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