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Book Title
Joan Didion
ISBN-10
143848139X
EAN
9781438481395
Title
Joan Didion
Subtitle
Substance and Style
ISBN
9781438481395
Genre
Literary Criticism
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Release Date
02/01/2021
Release Year
2021
Topic
Society & Culture
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
143848139X
ISBN-13
9781438481395
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16050089953

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
184 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Joan Didion : Substance and Style
Subject
Women Authors, Rhetoric, American / General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Author
Kathleen M. Vandenberg
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-024719
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"...an engaging look at how Didion's recent work mirrors an urbane style yet continues familiar patterns in her writing." -- CHOICE "...there is a fascinating study of Didion's writing here, especially useful and welcome because it focusses on the text and not Didion as author or biographical subject." -- International Times, "an engaging look at how Didion's recent work mirrors an urbane style yet continues familiar patterns in her writing." -- CHOICE "there is a fascinating study of Didion's writing here, especially useful and welcome because it focusses on the text and not Didion as author or biographical subject." -- International Times
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: To Shift the Structure of a Sentence 1. Language and the Mechanism of Terror: Salvador 2. Preferred Narratives: New York City after the Central Park Jogger 3. Lifting the Curtain: The Rhetoric of Politics 4. Terra Incognita : On Loss and Memory Conclusion: What Remains Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Much acclaimed and often imitated, Joan Didion remains one of the leading American essayists and political journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The lone woman writer among the New Journalists in the 1960s and '70s, Didion became a powerful critic of public and political mythologies in the '80s and '90s, and was an inspiration for those, particularly women, dealing with aging and grief and loss in the early 2000s. An iconic figure, Didion is still much admired by readers, critics, and essayists, who speak of looking to her prose style as a model for their own. In Joan Didion: Substance and Style , Kathleen M. Vandenberg explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for its beauty and poetry, also works rhetorically. Through close readings of selected nonfiction from the last forty years--biographically, culturally, and politically situated--Vandenberg reveals how Didion deliberately and powerfully employs style to emphasize her point of view and enchant her readers. While Didion continues to publish and the "Cult of Joan," as one author calls it, grows seemingly stronger by the day, this book is the only extended treatment of Didion's later nonfiction and the first sustained and close consideration of how her essays work at the level of the sentence., Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically., Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically. 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Much acclaimed and often imitated, Joan Didion remains one of the leading American essayists and political journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The lone woman writer among the New Journalists in the 1960s and '70s, Didion became a powerful critic of public and political mythologies in the '80s and '90s, and was an inspiration for those, particularly women, dealing with aging and grief and loss in the early 2000s. An iconic figure, Didion is still much admired by readers, critics, and essayists, who speak of looking to her prose style as a model for their own. In Joan Didion: Substance and Style , Kathleen M. Vandenberg explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for its beauty and poetry, also works rhetorically. Through close readings of selected nonfiction from the last forty years-biographically, culturally, and politically situated-Vandenberg reveals how Didion deliberately and powerfully employs style to emphasize her point of view and enchant her readers. While Didion continues to publish and the "Cult of Joan," as one author calls it, grows seemingly stronger by the day, this book is the only extended treatment of Didion's later nonfiction and the first sustained and close consideration of how her essays work at the level of the sentence.
LC Classification Number
PS3554.I33Z94 2021

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