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The dialect of the tribe : speech and community in modern fiction /

The bold careers of Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett--writers with profoundly unsettled cultural identities--spark Margery Sabin's investigation of values carried through inherited forms of speech. The Dialect of the Tribe offers fresh readings of such great novels as...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sabin, Margery, 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
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  • Contents; Introduction; 1 The Life of English Idiom, the Laws of French Clich; 2 The Community of Intelligence and the Avant-Garde; 3 Competition of Intelligence in The Golden Bowl; 4 Constructing Character: Speech and Will in Women in Love; 5 Near and Far Things in Lawrence's Writing of the Twenties; 6 Postures and Impostures of English in Ulysses; 7 Signs of Life and Death in Beckett's Trilogy; Notes; Index.