Novel Violence : A Narratography of Victorian Fiction
Garrett. Stewart
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, Ill. ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (278 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Backlog \ Prologue; Introduction; 1 - The Omitted Person Plot - Little Dorrit's Fault; 2 - Attention Surfeit Disorder - An "Interregnum" on Poescript vs. Plot; 3 - Mind Frames - Anne Brontë's Exchange Economy; 4 - Of Time as a River - The Mill of Desire; 5 - Death per Force - Tess's Destined End; Epilogue / Dialogue; Notes; Index. - 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 linguist
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| ISBN | 0226774589. - 9780226774589
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