TY - BOOK AU - Mieszkowski,Jan TI - Crises of the sentence SN - 9780226617220 AV - P295 .M54 2019eb U1 - 415.01 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Sentences KW - Philosophy KW - Phrase (Linguistique) KW - Philosophie KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Grammar & Punctuation KW - bisacsh KW - Linguistics KW - Syntax N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: what is a sentence? -- Slogans and other one-liners -- The poetic line -- Sentences terminable and interminable -- The democratic sentence -- Conclusion: the sentence fetish N2 - This text offers the first systematic account of modern literary and philosophical conceptions of the sentence. It opens by demonstrating that there is little agreement about what a sentence is, what makes one effective or elegant, and whether there are aesthetic or political grounds for resisting its organizational hegemony. The chapters explore a range of attempts to challenge traditional logical, grammatical, and stylistic paradigms UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1941126 ER -