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Twentieth-century fiction : from text to context

Title
Twentieth-century fiction : from text to context / edited by Peter Verdonk and Jean Jacques Weber.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Verdonk, Peter, 1935-
  • Weber, Jean Jacques.
Description
xix, 269 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Series Statement
Interface
Uniform Title
Interface (London, England)
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Fiction > History and criticism > 20th century
  • Literary style
  • 18.05 English literature
  • 17.86 literary genres, theory of genre
  • Fiction
  • Stijlen
  • Romans
  • Analyse du discours littéraire
  • Roman > 20e siècle > Technique
  • Roman > 20e siècle > Thèmes, motifs
  • Roman > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
  • Style littéraire
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Peter Verdonk and Jean Jacques Weber -- 1. Words, words, words : a pragmatic and socio-cognitive view of lexical repetition / Peter Verdonk -- 2. How metaphor leads Susan Rawlings into suicide : a cognitive-linguistic analysis of Doris Lessing's 'To room nineteen' / Jean Jacques Weber -- 3. Understanding controversial undercurrents in 'The ebony tower' by John Fowles / Mick Short -- 4. Dialogue and power in E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' / R.A. Buck and Timothy R. Austin -- 5. Narrative iconicity and repetition in oral and literary narratives / Susan Ehrlich -- 6. Free indirect discourse in Doris Lessing's 'One off the short list' : a case of designed ambiguity / Helen Aristar Dry -- 7. Language and perspective in Katherine Mansfield's 'Prelude' / David A. Lee -- 8. Discourse style makes viewpoint : the example of Carver's narrator in 'Cathedral' / Michael Toolan -- 9. Language, literature and film : the stylistics of Bernard MacLaverty's 'Cal' / Paul Simpson and Martin Montgomery -- 10. Virginia Woolf's 'Old Mrs Grey' : issues of genre / Irene R. Fairley -- 11. "World enough, and time" : deictic space and the interpretation of prose / Paul Werth -- 12. Working with sexism : what can feminist text analysis do? / Sara Mills -- 13. Strategy and contingency / David Birch.
ISBN
  • 0415105897
  • 9780415105897
  • 0415105900
  • 9780415105903
LCCN
94042734
OCLC
  • ocm31434489
  • 31434489
  • SCSB-2067799
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library