Ira Nadel

The American Sentence

From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 240 Seiten
ISBN 135047309X
EAN 9781350473096
Veröffentlicht 11. Dezember 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic

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Beschreibung

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?

Portrait

Ira Nadel 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 Love and Russian Literature, From Benjamin to Woolf (2024), Philip Roth, A Counterlife (2021), Virginia Woolf (2016), Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard (2002) and Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (1996).