Reading style [electronic resource] : a life in sentences / Jenny Davidson.

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.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2014 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO) eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Reading Style: A Life in Sentences
Format:	Electronic eBook

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.