Novel violence : a narratography of Victorian fiction /
Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. ℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡...
| Основен автор: | Stewart, Garrett. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=285209 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Novel violence. |
| Резюме: |
Victorian novels, Garrett Stewart argues, hurtle forward in prose as violent as the brutal human existence they chronicle. In Novel Violence, he explains how such language assaults the norms of written expression and how, in doing so, it counteracts the narratives it simultaneously propels. ℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡ Immersing himself in the troubling plots of Charles Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Stewart uses his brilliant new method of narratography to trace the microplots of language as they unfold syllable by syllable. By pinpointing where these linguistic narratives collide with. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226774602 0226774600 9780226774589 0226774589 1282267140 9781282267145 |