Suppose a Sentence

Title: Suppose a Sentence
Author: Brian Dillon
Literary Criticism: 1686324
ISBN: 9781681375243
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2020
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Section: Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year.

In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence--from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion--this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.