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Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay - asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us - and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores style, voice and context. But it also uses its subjects - from George Eliot to Joan Didion, John Donne to Annie Dillard - to ask what the sentence is today and what it might become next.
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Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Suppose a Sentence
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Brian Dillon
- Publisher
- NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN10
- 1681375249
- ISBN13
- 9781681375243
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, True Stories, Literary Studies, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Writing, About Books, Criticism
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
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- Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay - asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us - and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores style, voice and context. But it also uses its subjects - from George Eliot to Joan Didion, John Donne to Annie Dillard - to ask what the sentence is today and what it might become next.