Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Novel Style
- Ethics and Excess in English Fiction since the 1960s
Engelsk Hardback
Novel Style
- Ethics and Excess in English Fiction since the 1960s
Engelsk Hardback

1.041 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog
We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury, we are flirting with a recessionary mood. Big books abound, but rhetorical largesse at the level of the sentence is a shrinking economy. There is a prevailing minimalist sensibility in the twenty-first century.Novel Style is driven by the conviction that elaborate writing opens up unique ways of thinking that are endangered when expression is reduced to its leanest possible forms. By re-examining the works of essential English stylists of the late twentieth century (Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis), as well as a newer generation of twenty-first-century stylists (Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, David Mitchell), Ben Masters argues for the ethical power of stylistic flamboyance in fiction and demonstrates how being a stylist and an ethicist are one and the same thing. A passionate championing of elaborate writing and close reading, Novel Style illuminates what it means to have style and how style can change us..
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
214
ISBN-13:
9780198766148
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198766149
Udg. Dato:
21 dec 2017
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
168mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
21 dec 2017
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge