Value of Style in Fiction

This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis across dozens of significant authors.

List of contents

1. Introduction: verbal investments - richness, wealth, value; 2. Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens; 3. Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville; 4. A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond; 5. Inventory: some terms of engagement - A to Z.

About the author

Garrett Stewart is the James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa.  After numerous books on fiction, poetics, film, and conceptual art, his study of Victorian narrative style, Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction, was awarded the 2011 Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative.  He is the author most recently of The Deed of Reading: Literature • Writing • Language • Philosophy (2015) and Transmedium: Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art (forthcoming), with a forthcoming volume on the language of Dickens entitled The One, Other, and Only Dickens. He was elected in 2010 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Summary

This book demonstrates the significance of prose analysis by evaluating the writings of dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. This book will be a key resource for students studying fiction and the novel as well as those in creative writing, prose style and creative non-fiction courses.

Product details

• Authors: Garrett Stewart, Garrett (University of Iowa) Stewart, Stewart Garrett
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781107193857
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19385-7
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: The Value of; The Value of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers