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- ISSN: 0010-0994
- E-ISSN: 2161-8178
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The Fighting Style: Reading the Unabomber’s Strunk and White
- Source: College English, Volume 72, Issue 1, Sep 2009, p. 10 - 28
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- 01 Sep 2009
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
© 2009 by the National Council of Teachers of English