The American Sentence
From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 11 December 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350473096
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what in fact is an American sentence and how has it changed?
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A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what is an American sentence and how has it changed?
While sentences have become the subject of their own form, literary histories, cultural narratives, and personal writings have not centred on the sentence as a singular object. There is no history of the sentence. This book addresses that absence, reviewing American style through American literary history for evolutionary moments in the development of the American sentence from the Puritans to the present day.
Reading sentences from writers as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Lydia Davis, Cormac McCarthy and Colson Whitehead, we find ourselves asking if a poetics of the American sentence actually exists, whether good sentences are the reason we read, and what the future of the American sentence might be.
Table of Contents:
Prelude: The Blue Air
Introduction: The Architecture of the American Sentence
Chapter 1. American Voices: The Pulpit, the Sermon, the Jeremiad
Chapter 2 The Telegram: American Speed
Chapter 3 Criminal Sentences: The Press
Chapter 4 American Pieces: The Screen
Conclusion: Dancing Periods or Performing the Sentence
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