Description: Pages clean and unmarked except for a few small pen line like brackets. No cover wear from handling. Images on listing, are of this book. PAPERBACK _____________ 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 Bernhard, and Karl Ove Knausgaard; and allows for a sophisticated appreciation of popular fictions by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lionel Shriver, George Pelecanos, and Helen DeWitt. She privileges diction, syntax, point of view, and structure over plot and character, identifying the intimate mechanics that draw us in to literature's sensual frameworks and move us to feel, identify, and relate. Davidson concludes with a reading list of her favorite titles so others can share in her literary adventures and get to know better the imprint of her own reading style.
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Subject Area: READING, WRITING, LITERATURE
Publication Name: Reading Style: A Life in Sentences Paperback by Jenny Davidson 2
Item Length: 8.1in
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Language & Literature, Literature, Writing & Reading
Publication Year: 2016
Series: Reading Style: A Life in Sentences Paperback by Jenny Davidson 2
Type: Textbook
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.6in
Author: Jenny Davidson
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education, Elementary School, High School, Middle School, Nursery School, Preschool, Vocational School
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 5.2in
Item Weight: 9.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 200 Pages