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245 10 a| Grammar and twentieth-century American literature /c| Lola Boorman.;

264 1 a| Edinburgh :b| Edinburgh University Press Ltd,c| [2026];

300 a| vii, 280 pages ;c| 23 cm.;

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490 1 a| Modern American literature and the new twentieth century;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction : Make grammar do -- Authorised forms : Gertrude Stein and Harvard style -- Zora Neale Hurston's tone-deaf dialects -- A position at the university : Lydia Davis, theory and the everyday -- Politics and the English language : David Foster Wallace's standards -- Conclusion : Tense present.;

520 a| " Explores the intersection of American literature and language politics through the curiously understudied subject of grammar. Taking Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Davis and David Foster Wallace as key case studies, Lola Boorman makes a series of compelling links between how American authors and intellectuals learned grammar -- through various, diverse institutional settings -- and how they use it in their work to directly address structures of power, authority, democracy, gender, race and class. Drawing on the shifting discourses and definitions of grammar in academic disciplines, literary and intellectual movements and para-literary networks -- including linguistics, anthropology, language philosophy, self-help grammar books and school pedagogy -- the book charts the invisible yet ubiquitous role that grammar has played in literature and literary criticism, and its embeddedness in systems of social and political power and conceptions of national identity"--c| Page 4 of cover.;

650 0 a| American literaturey| 20th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A23018;

650 0 a| Literary style.=| ^A15553;

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650 0 a| English languagex| Grammar.=| ^A36416;

650 0 a| Grammar, Comparative and general.=| ^A5206;

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Grammar and twentieth-century American literature / Lola Boorman.

Author/creator	Boorman, Lola author.
Format	Book
Publication	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2026]
Description	vii, 280 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects	American literature--20th century. --History and criticism. Literary style. Authors, American--20th century. English language--Grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general. Literary style--Political aspects. --United States. --History. --20th century.

Series	Modern American literature and the new twentieth century Modern American literature and the new twentieth century. ^A1373755
Contents	Introduction : Make grammar do -- Authorised forms : Gertrude Stein and Harvard style -- Zora Neale Hurston's tone-deaf dialects -- A position at the university : Lydia Davis, theory and the everyday -- Politics and the English language : David Foster Wallace's standards -- Conclusion : Tense present.
Abstract	" Explores the intersection of American literature and language politics through the curiously understudied subject of grammar. Taking Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Davis and David Foster Wallace as key case studies, Lola Boorman makes a series of compelling links between how American authors and intellectuals learned grammar -- through various, diverse institutional settings -- and how they use it in their work to directly address structures of power, authority, democracy, gender, race and class. Drawing on the shifting discourses and definitions of grammar in academic disciplines, literary and intellectual movements and para-literary networks -- including linguistics, anthropology, language philosophy, self-help grammar books and school pedagogy -- the book charts the invisible yet ubiquitous role that grammar has played in literature and literary criticism, and its embeddedness in systems of social and political power and conceptions of national identity"-- Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	ebook version : 9781399547567
Genre/form	Literary criticism.
Genre/form	Critiques littéraires.
ISBN	9781399547543 hardcover
ISBN	1399547542 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic book
Standard identifier#	CIPO000292034

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