Reading style a life in sentences / Jenny Davidson.

Author/creator Davidson, Jenny
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Descriptionx, 196 pages ; 22 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013030998
ISBN9780231168588 (cloth : alk. paper)

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