The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English. Strunk and White's Elements of Style and William Safire's column, "On Language," provide help on diction and syntax to contemporary writers and speakers. Sister Miriam Joseph's book, The Trivium: The...
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This book involves understanding the nature and function or language. Booknews This is a reissue of a text originally published in 1937, with new editions appearing in 1940 and 1948. The text is based on Joseph's teaching at Saint Mary's College, which explored the links between logic, grammar, and rhetoric, as well as induction, poetics, figurative language, and poetry. This new edition includes notes by Todd Moody (philosophy, Saint Joseph's U., Philadelphia) providing commentary and amplification, and the addition of source citations using a contemporary standard format. The outline format used by Joseph has also been revised for greater clarity between information and examples. Suitable for teachers, students, writers, lawyers, and others concerned with the use of language. McGlinn is an editor and writer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
\ BooknewsThis is a reissue of a text originally published in 1937, with new editions appearing in 1940 and 1948. The text is based on Joseph's teaching at Saint Mary's College, which explored the links between logic, grammar, and rhetoric, as well as induction, poetics, figurative language, and poetry. This new edition includes notes by Todd Moody (philosophy, Saint Joseph's U., Philadelphia) providing commentary and amplification, and the addition of source citations using a contemporary standard format. The outline format used by Joseph has also been revised for greater clarity between information and examples. Suitable for teachers, students, writers, lawyers, and others concerned with the use of language. McGlinn is an editor and writer. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
