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Language of fiction : essays in criticism and verbal analysis of the English novel / David Lodge ; with a new foreword by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Routledge classicsPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, c2002.Description: xvi, 323 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0415290031 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • IP 823.009 LOD
Contents:
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 -- Concepts of Style -- Stylistics -- Style and Modern Linguistics -- M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics -- J. Warburg: Appropriate Choice -- F.R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction -- The Vocabulary of 'Mansfield Park' -- Fire and Eye: Charlotte Bronte's War of Earthly Elements -- The Rhetoric of 'Hard Times' -- Tess, Nature, and the Voices of Hardy -- Strether by the River -- 'Tono-Bungay' and the Condition of England -- The Modern, The Contemporary, and the Importance of being Amis.
Summary: Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded in communicating a radically new vision of English literature to a readership that reached well beyond the bounds of the academy. Now reissued with a new foreword, 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. -- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-313) and index.

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 --
Concepts of Style --
Stylistics --
Style and Modern Linguistics --
M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics --
J. Warburg: Appropriate Choice --
F.R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction --
The Vocabulary of 'Mansfield Park' --
Fire and Eye: Charlotte Bronte's War of Earthly Elements --
The Rhetoric of 'Hard Times' --
Tess, Nature, and the Voices of Hardy --
Strether by the River --
'Tono-Bungay' and the Condition of England --
The Modern, The Contemporary, and the Importance of being Amis.


Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded in communicating a radically new vision of English literature to a readership that reached well beyond the bounds of the academy. Now reissued with a new foreword, 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. -- Back cover.

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