Description
| Product ID: | 9781913097011 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Suppose a Sentence |
| Authors: | Author: Brian Dillon |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence – from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion – the book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature. Whether the sentence in question is a rigorous expression of a state of vulnerability, extremity, even madness, or a carefully calibrated arrangement, Dillon examines not only how it works and why but also, in the course of the book, what the sentence once was, what it is today, and what it might become tomorrow. |
| Imprint Name: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Publisher Name: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-23 |