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1 online resource (viii, 184 pages .) |
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Oxford English Monographs |
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Oxford English monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover ; Conspicuous Silences: Implicature and Fictionality in the Victorian Novel; Copyright; Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: Pragmatics and Fictional Narrative; NARRATOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS OF GAPS; PRAGMATIC STYLISTICS; IMPLICATURE AND FICTIONALITY IN POST-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC STYLISTICS; AIMS AND METHODS OF THIS WORK; 1: The Unarticulated Antinarratable: Illegitimate Pregnancy and the Pragmatics of Politeness; INTRODUCTION; HISTORICAL CONTEXT; THE PRAGMATICS OF POLITENESS; JESSIE PHILLIPS: TROLLOPE'S CALL FOR CHANGE; RUTH: GASKELL'S CAREFUL PROTEST |
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ADAM BEDE: ELIOT'S APPEAL FOR SYMPATHY2: Unspoken Desires: Representations of Semiconsciousness and Control; INTRODUCTION; VICTORIAN DISCOURSES ON THE UNCONSCIOUS; NARRATOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS OF REPRESENTED INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS; THE MILL ON THE FLOSS: ELIOT'S NARRATION OF RESISTED ATTRACTION; ORLEY FARM: INTERPRETATIONS, INFATUATIONS, AND CRIME; 3: The Narrative Tease: Open Secrets in Sensation Fiction; INTRODUCTION; SENSATION FICTION AND LITERARY REALISM; READING FOR SUBVERSIVE MESSAGES: TONALAMBIGUITY IN LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET |
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HIDDEN IDENTITIES AND SLY COMMUNICATIONS: NARRATIVE GAMES IN OUR MUTUAL FRIENDREPRESENTING FATE IN FICTION: ARTIFICIAL PLOTTING IN ARMADALE; Conclusion; Reference List; Index |
| Summary |
How are a reader's perceptions of a plot impacted by its presentation through textual clues rather than explicit narration, and why would an author choose this comparatively indirect mode of narration? 'Conspicuous Silences' answers these questions by examining Victorian novels in which pivotal events are left inexplicit for hundreds of pages at a time, but are nonetheless evident to the reader. The clarity with which readers understand these inexplicit plot lines is evidenced by their ability to follow the progression of narratives that rely heavily on the inexplicit content being detected; without this reader comprehension, these narratives would be deemed incoherent. In linguistics, communications that depend on a hearer's or reader's inference, rather on their 'decoding' the explicit content of an utterance, are termed 'implicatures'. 'Conspicuous Silences' explores the impact that central, sustained implicatures have on a reader's experience of a novel. It also discusses how authors may generate those implicatures by exploiting the reader's assumption of narratorial omniscience, and the correlated reader assumption of a narrative's fictionality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191822582 |
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0191822582 |
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0191082368 |
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9780191082368 |
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9780191082375 |
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0191082376 |
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