"We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury,...

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Main Author:	Masters, Ben 1986- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Oxford University Press 2017
Edition:	First edition
Subjects:	Geschichte 1960-2000 Literarischer Stil Englisch Literatur English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism English fiction / 21st century / History and criticism English fiction / Moral and ethical aspects Literary style BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury, we are flirting with a recessionary mood. Big books abound, but rhetorical largesse at the level of the sentence is a shrinking economy. There is a prevailing minimalist sensibility in the twenty-first century. Novel Style is driven by the conviction that elaborate writing opens up unique ways of thinking that are endangered when expression is reduced to its leanest possible forms. By re-examining the works of essential English stylists of the late twentieth century (Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis), as well as a newer generation of twenty-first-century stylists (Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, David Mitchell), Ben Masters argues for the ethical power of stylistic flamboyance in fiction and demonstrates how being a stylist and an ethicist are one and the same thing. A passionate championing of elaborate writing and close reading, Novel Style illuminates what it means to have style and how style can change us."--
Physical Description:	ix, 200 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:	9780198766148 0198766149