The beginnings: first words, first lines, first stories.
The article offers information on the observation about the rhetoric of first sentence and the postmodern obsession with self-referentiality. It further discusses instances of the pronoun and prepositions; most famous American use of the first-person plural pronoun at the start of a document; the fr...
| Publicado en: | New Criterion Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 4 - 14 |
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New Criterion
Nov2022
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| Sumario: | The article offers information on the observation about the rhetoric of first sentence and the postmodern obsession with self-referentiality. It further discusses instances of the pronoun and prepositions; most famous American use of the first-person plural pronoun at the start of a document; the frequency of any word in a corpus of natural language; and also mentions about great English novelists like Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James. |
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