[This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber’s most recent post.] The name…
What’s So New about the New Sentence?
The new sentence, like all other “new” phenomena and movements (the New Criticism, the New Novel, the New Narrative, dozens…
The Dominant and the Longue Durée
It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although…
Recovery Project (3) Ron Silliman – The New Sentence (1977)
The qualities of the new sentence: 1) The paragraph organizes the sentences; 2) The paragraph is a unit of quantity,…