Joan Didion : substance and style /
Explores 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...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18254584 |
Sommario:
- Introduction: To shift the structure of a sentence
- Language and the mechanism of terror : Salvador
- Preferred narratives : New York City after the Central Park jogger
- Lifting the curtain : the rhetoric of politics
- Terra Incognita : on loss and memory
- Conclusion: What remains.