A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can prove highly fluid. In this study, Robert James Merrett approaches Defoe's body of work using interdisciplinary methods that recognize dialectic in his verbal creativity and cognitive awareness.
Examining more than ninety of Defoe's works, Merrett contends that this author's literariness exploits...
A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material an...
This book seeks to provide, by demonstrating that Daniel Defoe is a more deliberate thinker and a more calculatedly provocative teacher than is perhaps usually conceded, a context for the appreciation of the part which narrative contraries and dialectic play in his fiction.
This book seeks to provide, by demonstrating that Daniel Defoe is a more deliberate thinker and a more calculatedly provocative teacher than is perhap...
