| Description |
xii, 283 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Part one. The novelist's medium and the novelist's art : problems in criticism. 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 I -- Concepts of style ; stylistics ; Style and modern linguistics ; M. Riffaterre : scientific stylistics ; J. Warburg : appropriate choice ; F.R. Leavis and the moral dimension of fiction -- Conclusions : principles ; Conclusions : methods -- Repetition -- Part two. Introductory ; The vocabulary of "Mansfield Park" ; Fire and Eyre : Charlotte Brontë's war of earthly elements ; The rhetoric of "Hard times" ; Tess, nature, and the voices of Hardy ; Strether by the river ; "Tono-Bungay" and the condition of England ; The modern, the contemporary, and the importance of being Amis |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 268-279 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 268-279 |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English language -- Style.
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English language -- Great Britain -- Style.
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| LC no. |
66010731 |
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