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24%OFFJenny Davidson - Reading Style: A Life in Sentences - 9780231168595 - V9780231168595
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Reading Style: A Life in Sentences

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Description for Reading Style: A Life in Sentences Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 134 x 205 x 16. Weight in Grams: 274.
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 elicits particular kinds of moral judgments and subjective preferences that turn reading into a highly personal and political act. Melding her experiences as reader and critic, Davidson opens new vistas onto works by Jane Austen, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Pynchon; adds richer dimension to critiques of W. G. Sebald, Alan Hollinghurst, Thomas ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231168595
SKU
V9780231168595
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About Jenny Davidson
Jenny Davidson teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published two books on eighteenth-century British literature, including Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century, and four novels. She blogs at Light Reading (jennydavidson.blogspot.com).

Reviews for Reading Style: A Life in Sentences
Davidson is the ideal reader every writer wishes for, who catches every nuance and every sly allusion, who is alive to rhythm and color and orchestration. She does not just read for that ostensibly load-bearing stuff that is labeled 'meaning,' but detects all of the layers of meaning that are conveyed purely by style. Her book is a gift and ... Read more

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