The Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

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ISBN: 9780415290036 | 0415290031
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Copyright: 11/12/2002

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Foreword to Routledge Classics Edition
Preface
Modern Criticism and Literary Language	p. 7
Poetry and Prose	p. 8
F. W. Bateson: Ideas and Logic	p. 13
Christopher Caudwell: The Current of Mock Reality	p. 16
The Argument from Translation	p. 19
Proust and Scott Moncrieff Compared	p. 22
Translation: Poetry and Prose	p. 25
The Argument from Bad Writing	p. 28
The Modern Movement in Fiction: A Digression	p. 30
Summary of Arguments	p. 32
J. M. Cameron: These Words in this Order	p. 35
Language and Fictional Illusion	p. 41
F. W. Bateson and B. Shakevitch: Particularity	p. 45
Conclusions to Section 1	p. 49
Concepts of Style	p. 52
Stylistics	p. 55
Style and Modern Linguistics	p. 60
M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics	p. 61
J. Warburg: Appropriate Choice	p. 64
F. R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction	p. 69
Conclusions: Principles	p. 74
Conclusions: Methods	p. 83
Repetition	p. 87
The Vocabulary of 'Mansfield Park'	p. 98
Fire and Eye: Charlotte Bronte's War of Earthly Elements	p. 120
The Rhetoric of 'Hard Times'	p. 153
Tess, Nature, and the Voices of Hardy	p. 174
Strether by the River	p. 200
'Tono-Bungay' and the Condition of England	p. 227
The Modern, The Contemporary, and the Importance of being Amis	p. 259
Afterword to the Second Edition (1984)	p. 286
References	p. 301
Index	p. 315
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