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Style in fiction : a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose /
Describes the ways in which the techniques of linguistic analysis and literary criticism can be combined, and illuminated, through the linguistic study of literary style, and draws on the prose fiction of the last 150 years to demonstrate the approach.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Longman,
1981.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction-- Part 1 Approaches and methods-- Style and choice-- Style, Text and frequency--A methods of analysis and some examples-- levels of style Part II Aspects of style Language and the fictional world-- Mind style-- The rhetoric of text-- Discourse and discourse situation-- conversation in the novel-- Speech and thought presentation-- Passage and topics for further study-- Further reading-- Bibliography-- Index of work discussed-- General index