{"product_id":"9781350473089","title":"American Sentence From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAmerican Sentence\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFrom Pulpit to Pulp Fiction\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIra Nadel\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e an American sentence and how has it changed?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIra Nadel\u003c\/b\u003e is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a UBC Distinguished University Scholar and a winner of the Medal for Canadian Biography. Based at the University of British Columbia, he has lectured  throughout Europe, North America and Asia. His works include \u003ci\u003eLove and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf (2024)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePhilip Roth: A Counterlife\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Critical Lives) \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), \u003ci\u003eDouble Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and \u003ci\u003eVarious Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen \u003c\/i\u003e(1996).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11 December 2025\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350473089\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10.88\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57328099197068,"sku":"9781350473089","price":22.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350473089","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}