Crises of the Sentence

by Jan Mieszkowski

There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the word, trope, line, or stanza.
To understand what is at stake in thinking--or not thinking--about the sentence, Jan Mieszkowski looks at the difficulties confronting nineteenth- and twentieth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022661719X
• ISBN13: 9780226617190
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"