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- Reading Novels
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
summary
Reading Novels is a unique piece of practical criticism, a comprehensive "poetics" of a genre that has not attracted a great deal of attention, at least not on this level. It is a reader's and student's guide that reaches beyond issues of individual texts and historical traditions to essential features of the form.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- pp. 4-5
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Part I: Openings
- 1. Starting the Analysis
- pp. 15-38
- 2. Space and Time
- pp. 39-54
- Part II: Description, Character, Dialogue, and Monologue
- 3. Description
- pp. 57-70
- 4. Character and Character Portraits
- pp. 71-86
- 5. Dialogue
- pp. 87-103
- 6. Monologue and Stream of Consciousness
- pp. 104-110
- 7. Free Indirect Discourse
- pp. 111-116
- Part III: Narrative and Narrators
- 8. Narrative I
- pp. 119-130
- 9. Narrative II
- pp. 131-147
- 10. Narrators
- pp. 148-160
- Part IV: The Language of the Text
- pp. 161-164
- 11. Sentence Structure and Connection
- pp. 165-182
- 12. Verbs: Tense, Time, and Voice
- pp. 183-193
- 13. Adjectives
- pp. 194-198
- 14. Figures: Metaphor, Metonymy, Irony
- pp. 199-212
- 15. Words and Meanings
- pp. 213-221
- 16. Repetition and Figures of Construction
- pp. 222-233
- Part V: Endings
- 18. Endings
- pp. 241-248
- Appendix 1: Film and the Novel
- pp. 253-256
- Works of Fiction Cited
- pp. 283-286
- Select Bibliography
- pp. 287-292
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826591531
Related ISBN(s)
9780826513991, 9780826514004
MARC Record
OCLC
50321141
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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