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Informationen zum Autor David Lodge Klappentext Now including a new introduction from the author, this major work from the pen of one of England's finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about the creation and appreciation of literature. Zusammenfassung "The Language of Fiction" was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of literature that focuses the reader's attention on the significance of language. This edition has a new foreword from David Lodge and includes in its entirety the comprehensive afterword from the 1984 ed Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I The Novelist's Medium and the Novelist's Art: Problems in Criticism, Introductory 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 1, Stylistics Style and Modern Linguistics M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics J. Warburg: Appropriate Choice F. R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction, PART II Introductory 1 The Vocabulary of 'Mansfield Park' 2 Fire and Eyre: Charlotte Bronte's War of Earthly Elements 3 The Rhetoric of 'Hard Times' 4 Tess, Nature, and the Voices of Hardy 5 Strether by the River 6 'Tono-Bungay' and the Condition of England 7 The Modern, The Contemporary, and the Importance of being Amis.
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PART I The Novelist's Medium and the Novelist's Art: Problems in Criticism, Introductory 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 1, Stylistics Style and Modern Linguistics M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics J. Warburg: Appropriate Choice F. R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction, PART II Introductory 1 The Vocabulary of 'Mansfield Park' 2 Fire and Eyre: Charlotte Bronte's War of Earthly Elements 3 The Rhetoric of 'Hard Times' 4 Tess, Nature, and the Voices of Hardy 5 Strether by the River 6 'Tono-Bungay' and the Condition of England 7 The Modern, The Contemporary, and the Importance of being Amis.
