The Value of Style in Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781107193857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 152 str.

Garrett Stewart

Opis

This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis across dozens of significant authors.

Recenzje

'The Value of Style in Fiction ... offers itself to those seeking to learn the craft of attentive reading and inventive writing at the level of the sentence as a form of mini-plot.' Philip Davis, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction: verbal investments – richness, wealth, value; 2. Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens; 3. Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville; 4. A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond; 5. Inventory: some terms of engagement – A to Z.