Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W3045479094> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 59 of
59
with 100 items per page.
- W3045479094 abstract "This thesis explores the relationship between grammar and twentieth-century American literature. The introduction attempts to map out the many connotations that grammar holds, examining its relationship to national identity, pedagogy, democracy, cultural and linguistic standardisation, and literary criticism. My first chapter explores the connections between Gertrude Stein’s experimental work and the ideological paradoxes of the Harvard writing programme at the turn of the twentieth century, which was itself responding to social anxieties about immigration and national identity. In my second chapter I argue that Lydia Davis’s idiosyncratic fiction reflects and responds to a tumultuous period in America’s intellectual history, which, from Chomsky to Derrida, was dominated and defined by questions of language. In the midst of this ferment and the political upheaval of the 1960s liberation movements, Davis’s work draws on these contexts while continuously reaffirming grammar’s role in the ‘everyday’. In my final chapter, I explore how grammar opens up new ways of understanding David Foster Wallace’s aesthetic and political vision, viewing his key works in terms of the opposition between linguistic prescriptivism and descriptivism. By examining Wallace’s response to developments in formal linguistics, I argue that these contexts offer a key to understanding his ultimate reversion to standard English as a means of recuperating a sense of community and consensus in American society, even at the cost of marginalising the languages of sexual and racial difference." @default.
- W3045479094 created "2020-07-29" @default.
- W3045479094 creator A5013707357 @default.
- W3045479094 date "2020-03-01" @default.
- W3045479094 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
- W3045479094 title "Make Grammar Do: Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature" @default.
- W3045479094 hasPublicationYear "2020" @default.
- W3045479094 type Work @default.
- W3045479094 sameAs 3045479094 @default.
- W3045479094 citedByCount "0" @default.
- W3045479094 crossrefType "dissertation" @default.
- W3045479094 hasAuthorship W3045479094A5013707357 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C142932270 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C158071213 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C26022165 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C2780668109 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C41895202 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConcept C94625758 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C138885662 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C142932270 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C144024400 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C158071213 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C17744445 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C199539241 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C26022165 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C2780668109 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C41895202 @default.
- W3045479094 hasConceptScore W3045479094C94625758 @default.
- W3045479094 hasLocation W30454790941 @default.
- W3045479094 hasOpenAccess W3045479094 @default.
- W3045479094 hasPrimaryLocation W30454790941 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W1901927730 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2065281060 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2111913936 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2226612611 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2401887001 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2408336872 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2502469852 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2523255835 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2533237024 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2620511737 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2765315959 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2800682032 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2888470178 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W2902587364 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W3034977291 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W3190152908 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W3199380592 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W597393065 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W606614679 @default.
- W3045479094 hasRelatedWork W646549152 @default.
- W3045479094 isParatext "false" @default.
- W3045479094 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W3045479094 magId "3045479094" @default.
- W3045479094 workType "dissertation" @default.