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Product Identifiers

PublisherLang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter

ISBN-103631894406

ISBN-139783631894408

eBay Product ID (ePID)15063302920

Product Key Features

Number of Pages194 Pages

Publication NameJoan Didion: Life And/With/Through Words

LanguageEnglish

SubjectRussian & Former Soviet Union, European / Italian, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2023

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorEva-Sabine Zehelein

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.3 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2023-044731

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentNotebooks - (auto)biography - photographs - Joan Didion - California - nostalgia - mental landscape - (post)-west - intimacy - reparative reading - LA - anti-sentimentality - Black Panthers - NYC - environmental psychology - place attachment - (dis)illusion - feminism - power - storytelling - abandonment - crossing story

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisJoan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America's most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the complex relationship between life and words as guiding framework, the volume offers fresh approaches to Slouching Towards Bethlehem , Play It As It Lays , The White Album , Democracy and Where I Was From , as well as takes on her final publications The Year of Magical Thinking , Blue Nights and Let Me Tell You What I Mean . The collection also features photographs of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, with an accompanying essay by artist and photographer Nancy Ellison, plus a contribution by literary biographer Tracy Daugherty., The contributions focus on the importance of narrative for Didion and on her complex narratological strategies (life and words: madwoman narrative, intimate unknowing,grammar of anti-sentimentality). Essays also discuss the significance of Didion's famous spaces/places-the West/California, NYC-and her omnipresent topos of the crossing story.

LC Classification NumberPS3554.I33Z74 2024