Language of fiction : essays in criticism and verbal analysis of the English novel / David Lodge
London ; New York : Routledge & K. Paul ; Columbia University Press, 1967. Second Edition. Very good library copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Minor library marks remain internally. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #449114
Physical description; xii, 283 pages ; 23 cm. Contents; Part one. The novelist's medium and the novelist's art : problems in criticism. 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 I -- 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 -- Conclusions : principles -- Conclusions : methods -- Repetition -- Part two. Introductory -- The vocabulary of "Mansfield Park" -- Fire and Eyre : Charlotte Brontë'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. Subjects; English fiction History and criticism. English language Style. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. Literary criticism. Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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