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Registering the difference : reading literature through register
- Title
- Registering the difference : reading literature through register / Lance St. John Butler.
- Author
- Butler, Lance St. John.
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR65.D57 B886 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 215 pages; 21 cm
- Subject
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Literary style
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 > Literary style
- Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
- English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
- Discourse analysis, Literary
- English language > Discourse analysis
- Register (Linguistics)
- literary criticism
- English literature > Theory, etc
- Literary style
- Textanalyse
- Register Linguistik
- Literatur
- Stilistik
- Literarischer Stil
- Engels
- Letterkunde
- Registers (taalkunde)
- Literaire taal
- Roman
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-213) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. Reading for register. Ch. 1. Noticing a difference. Ch. 2. The history (and the hijacking) of register. Ch. 3. Two big distinctions: written/spoken and formal/informal -- pt. II. The ways register works. Ch. 4. Registers of culture and power. Ch. 5. Literary register. Ch. 6. Register and genre. Ch. 7. Translating register -- pt. III. Case studies. Ch. 8. 'Pestling the unalterable whey of words': Samuel Beckett's attempt at unstyle. Ch. 9. Register and dialect: Thomas Hardy's voices. Ch. 10. 'Singing, each to each': sounding like poetry.
- ISBN
- 0719056136
- 9780719056130
- 0719056144
- 9780719056147
- LCCN
- 99039980
- OCLC
- ocm41212530
- 41212530
- SCSB-927468
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library