Joan Didion : Substance and Style by Kathleen M. Vandenberg (2021, Hardcover)

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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10143848139X
ISBN-139781438481395
eBay Product ID (ePID)16050089953

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages
Publication NameJoan Didion : Substance and Style
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
SubjectWomen Authors, Rhetoric, American / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorKathleen M. Vandenberg
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-024719
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
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813.54
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisExplores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically., 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. 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 NumberPS3554.I33Z94 2021
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