Reading style : a life in sentences / Jenny Davidson.

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A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Davidson, Jenny (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Readability (Literary style) Literary style. Grammar, Comparative and general > Sentences. Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax. Criticism, Textual. Literature > Study and teaching.
Physical Description:	x, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

The Glimmer Factor: Anthony Burgess's 99 Novels
Lord Leighton, Liberace, and the Advantages Of Bad Writing: Helen Dewitt, Harry Stephen Keeler, Lionel Shriver, George Eliot
Mouthy Pleasures and the Problem Of Momentum: Gary Lutz, Lolita, Lydia Davis, Jonathan Lethem
The Acoustical Elegance of Aphorism: Kafka, Fielding, Austen, Flaubert
Tempo, Repetition, and a Taxonomy Of Pacing: Peter Temple, Neil Gaiman, A. L. Kennedy, Edward P. Jones
Late Style: The Golden Bowl and Swann's Way
Disordered Sentences: Georges Perec, Roland Barthes, Wayne Koestenbaum, Luc Sante
Details That Linger and the Charm Of Voluntary Reading: George Pelecanos, Stephen King, Thomas Pynchon
The Ideal Bookshelf: the Rings of Saturn and the Line Of Beauty
The Bind of Literature and the Bind of Life: Voices From Chernobyl, Thomas Bernhard, Karl Ove Knausgaard.