Reading style [electronic resource] : a life in sentences/ Davidson, Jenny.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Columbia University Press, 2014.Description: 209 pISBN: - 9780231168588
- 9780231537407
Chapter, Lesson, Part 1. The Glimmer Factor: Anthony Burgess's 99 Novels.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 2. Lord Leighton, Liberace, and the Advantages of Bad Writing: Helen DeWitt, Harry Stephen Keeler, Lionel Shriver, George Eliot.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 3. Mouthy Pleasures and the Problem of Momentum: Gary Lutz, Lolita, Lydia Davis, Jonathan Lethem.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 4. The Acoustical Elegance of Aphorism: Kafka, Fielding, Austen, Flaubert.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 5. Tempo, Repetition, and a Taxonomy of Pacing: Peter Temple, Neil Gaiman, A. L. Kennedy, Edward P. Jones.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 6. Late Style: The Golden Bowl and Swann's Way.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 7. Disordered Sentences: Georges Perec, Roland Barthes, Wayne Koestenbaum, Luc Sante.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 8. Details That Linger and the Charm of Voluntary Reading: George Pelecanos, Stephen King, Thomas Pynchon.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 9. The Ideal Bookshelf: The Rings of Saturn and The Line of Beauty.
Chapter, Lesson, Part 10. The Bind of Literature and the Bind of Life: Voices from Chernobyl, Thomas Bernhard, Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Cover, Title,Reading style : a life in sentences--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Contents--References, Appendix, Index,Notes--References, Appendix, Index,A Reading List--References, Appendix, Index,Index.
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