Joan Didion: Substance and Style

2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleMuch acclaimed and often imitated, Joan Didion remains one of the leading American...
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Author: Kathleen M. Vandenberg
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Joan Didion: Substance and Style by Vandenberg, Kathleen M.

Joan Didion: Substance and Style

$75.13

Joan Didion: Substance and Style

$75.13
Author: Kathleen M. Vandenberg
Format: Paperback
Language: English
2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Much acclaimed and often imitated, Joan Didion remains one of the leading American essayists and political journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The lone woman writer among the New Journalists in the 1960s and '70s, Didion became a powerful critic of public and political mythologies in the '80s and '90s, and was an inspiration for those, particularly women, dealing with aging and grief and loss in the early 2000s. An iconic figure, Didion is still much admired by readers, critics, and essayists, who speak of looking to her prose style as a model for their own. In Joan Didion: Substance and Style, Kathleen M. Vandenberg explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for its beauty and poetry, also works rhetorically. Through close readings of selected nonfiction from the last forty years--biographically, culturally, and politically situated--Vandenberg reveals how Didion deliberately and powerfully employs style to emphasize her point of view and enchant her readers. While Didion continues to publish and the "Cult of Joan," as one author calls it, grows seemingly stronger by the day, this book is the only extended treatment of Didion's later nonfiction and the first sustained and close consideration of how her essays work at the level of the sentence.

Author: Kathleen M. Vandenberg
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 07/02/2021
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9781438481388


Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2022

About the Author
Kathleen M. Vandenberg is Senior Lecturer in Rhetoric at Boston University.


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