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Crises of the Sentence

By Jan Mieszkowski

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780226617220
DOI
10.7208/9780226617220
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1428309 bytes)
Pages
272\257
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 23:52:04

Description

To understand what is at stake in thinking—or not thinking—about the sentence, Jan Mieszkowski looks at the difficulties confronting nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors when they try to explain what a sentence is. From Romantic debates about the power of the stand-alone sentence, to the realist obsession with precision and revision, to modernist experiments with ungovernable forms, Mieszkowski explores the hidden allegiances behind our ever-changing stylistic ideals.

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