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Conrad's Narrative Voice : Stylistic Aspects of His Fiction.
Werner Senn's 'Conrad's Narrative Voice' draws on the methodology of linguistic stylistics and the analysis of narrative discourse to discuss Joseph Conrad's perception of the role and the limitations of language. Tracing recurrent linguistic patterns allows Senn to demonstr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2017.
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| Colección: | Conrad studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conrad's Narrative Voice: Stylistic Aspects of His Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Vocabulary and Language of Fact; The Adjectival Style; The Adjectival Series; 3. Negation, Privation, Absence; The "Negative" Adjectives: Range and Types; The Deverbal Negative Adjective in Context; Negative Elements and Series; 4. Sight and Insight; Seeing; Perception and Cognition: Marlow; Epistemology and Point of View: "Typhoon"; 5. Physiognomy: Eyes, Faces, Looks; Author, Narrator and Character as Physiognomists; The Language of Eyes, Faces, and Looks.
- 6. Character ReferenceNaming and Point of View; Names, Appositions, and Substitutions; 7. Conjecture, Estrangement, and Distancing; The as if-Locution; Modification in First Person Narrative; Modification in Third Person Narrative; Modalization by seem and appear; 8. Free Indirect Style; Forms and Functions of Free Indirect Style; Free Indirect Speech and Thought in Nostromo; 9. Conclusion: Narrative Voice; Appendix: Tables; Bibliography; Index.