Showing posts with label Rhetoric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhetoric. Show all posts

Monday, August 3, 2009

The Green Book

In 1944, C. S. Lewis did a series of essays, lectures I think, that were published as The Abolition of Man. These lectures were a rebuttal of a book for "boys and girls in the upper forms of school." This book, known to Lewis fans as The Green Book because he graciously withheld the identity of the authors and the real title to the book, has been a mystery to me for several years now.
Not anymore. Doing some reading and searching about The Abolition of Man, I came across this web site and discovered the identity of The Green Book and the authors.
I already did an Amazon search and came up empty-handed on used copies. I'll bet there are none to be had. With the scathing review Lewis gave it, I'll bet the publisher did not even renew the copyright. Surely someone could scan the thing into Google Books or Internet Archive or something. I'd love to see some of the passages Lewis talks about in their original context.
Oh, and the actual title of The Green Book is The Control of Language: A Critical Approach to Reading and Writing and it was written by Alex King and Martin Ketley.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Who's on first - Elizabethan-style

I found this a little while ago and linked it to my Facebook account, but never thought to put it up here. This is hilarious. It actually made me go find the original and watch it too. I used it in Rhetoric class to illustrate the concept of word play and how it can be humorous and confusing at the same time.