The Trouble With Words: A Commonplace Book

By Maxine Ruvinsky

Book Overview

Mixing memoir, scholarship, and social commentary, The Trouble With Words uses the ancient technique of commonplacing to produce a series of essays on why language and learning still matter in a world awash in lies, a world increasingly described, blush-free, as "post-truth." It seeks to counteract the idea that words no longer matter and, while entertaining and engaging readers, to encourage them to take up the practice of keeping a commonplace book-and maybe even to write their own. The book's final chapter offers tips on how best to keep a commonplace book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1778224903
• ISBN13: 9781778224904
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Maxine Ruvinsky
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"