"The American Sentence".

The nature, history, and transformation of the American sentence in twentieth-century American fiction is the focus of this article, which examines the shift from the oracular to ordinary style, the contrast between James and Hemingway, or Thomas Wolfe and Cormac McCarthy. Examples of twentieth-cent...

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Published in:	Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 197 - 217
Main Author:	Nadel, Ira
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Toronto Press Dec2023
Subjects:	20th century American literature Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 James, Henry, 1843-1916 McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 Sentences (Grammar) Literary style 20th century (Literary period)
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