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. ℗¡℗¡℗¡℗¡...

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1. Verfasser: Stewart, Garrett
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (268 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.
ISBN:9780226774602
0226774600
9780226774589
0226774589
1282267140
9781282267145

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