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Joan Didion by Kathleen M. Vandenberg (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSTATE University of New York Press
ISBN-101438481381
ISBN-139781438481388
eBay Product ID (ePID)3057261537
Product Key Features
Number of Pages184 Pages
Publication NameJoan Didion
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWomen Authors, American / General, Rhetoric
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
AuthorKathleen M. Vandenberg
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-024719
Dewey Edition23
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 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., 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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