Language of Fiction

Essays in criticism and verbal analysis of the English novel

David Lodge (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2002
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-29002-9 (ISBN)

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"The Language of Fiction" was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of literature that focuses the reader's attention on the significance of language. This edition has a new foreword from David Lodge and includes in its entirety the comprehensive afterword from the 1984 edition.

David Lodge

PART I The Novelist's Medium and the Novelist's Art: Problems in Criticism, Introductory Modern Criticism and Literary Language Poetry and Prose F. W. Bateson: Ideas and Logic Christopher Caudwell: The Current of Mock Reality The Argument from Translation Proust and Scott Moncrieff Compared Translation: Poetry and Prose The Argument from Bad Writing The Modern Movement in Fiction: A Digression Summary of Arguments J. M. Cameron: These Words in this Order Language and Fictional Illusion F. W. Bateson and B. Shakevitch: Particularity Conclusions to Section 1, Stylistics Style and Modern Linguistics M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics J. Warburg: Appropriate Choice F. R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction, PART II Introductory 1 The Vocabulary of 'Mansfield Park' 2 Fire and Eyre: Charlotte Bronte's War of Earthly Elements 3 The Rhetoric of 'Hard Times' 4 Tess, Nature, and the Voices of Hardy 5 Strether by the River 6 'Tono-Bungay' and the Condition of England 7 The Modern, The Contemporary, and the Importance of being Amis.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.9.2002
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-29002-3 / 0415290023
ISBN-13	978-0-415-29002-9 / 9780415290029
Zustand	Neuware