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Joan Didion

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Roiphe, K. (2012). Joan Didion. In Roiphe, K. In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays. The Dial Press, pp. 102-116

an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)

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for memoirs, they still leave holes, pockets of deliberate vagueness, writerly lacunae

on Joan Didion's memoirs (Year, Blue Nights)

—p.102 by Katie Roiphe
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for memoirs, they still leave holes, pockets of deliberate vagueness, writerly lacunae

on Joan Didion's memoirs (Year, Blue Nights)

—p.102 by Katie Roiphe
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6 years, 7 months ago

(noun) brilliance, panache, quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

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Joan Didion, for all her stylistic brio, becomes straightforward

—p.106 by Katie Roiphe
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Joan Didion, for all her stylistic brio, becomes straightforward

—p.106 by Katie Roiphe
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(linguistics) the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking OR the act or an instance of omitting something

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The usual elisions occur

—p.106 by Katie Roiphe
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The usual elisions occur

—p.106 by Katie Roiphe
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(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a portent / (adjective) eliciting amazement or wonder; prodigious / (adjective) being a grave or serious matter / (adjective) self-consciously solemn or important; pompous / (adjective) ponderously excessive

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She did clipped irony and she did sentences swelling with portent.

—p.108 by Katie Roiphe
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She did clipped irony and she did sentences swelling with portent.

—p.108 by Katie Roiphe
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6 years, 7 months ago
113

[...] Didion uses ironic, or what could be more accurately called skeptical, quotation marks fanatically and constantly. They highlight the fact that the journalist is not just telling a story, she is taking it apart; that the words we use are suspect, revelatory.

I'm a little bit skeptical myself about her analysis of Didion's style (a lot of these so-called elements of her style just seem like fairly common stylistic features) but this passage is interesting

—p.113 by Katie Roiphe 6 years, 7 months ago

[...] Didion uses ironic, or what could be more accurately called skeptical, quotation marks fanatically and constantly. They highlight the fact that the journalist is not just telling a story, she is taking it apart; that the words we use are suspect, revelatory.

I'm a little bit skeptical myself about her analysis of Didion's style (a lot of these so-called elements of her style just seem like fairly common stylistic features) but this passage is interesting

—p.113 by Katie Roiphe 6 years, 7 months ago
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[...] After the famous first line of her collection The White Album, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," [...]

reminds me of one of Douglas Coupland's major themes ... did Didion originate this concept? Or does it predate even her?

—p.115 by Katie Roiphe 6 years, 7 months ago

[...] After the famous first line of her collection The White Album, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live," [...]

reminds me of one of Douglas Coupland's major themes ... did Didion originate this concept? Or does it predate even her?

—p.115 by Katie Roiphe 6 years, 7 months ago