The value of style in fiction / Garrett Stewart.
2018
PR826 .S735 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The value of style in fiction / Garrett Stewart.
Author
Stewart, Garrett, author.
ISBN
9781316645215 (paperback)
1316645215
9781107193857 (hardcover)
1107193850
1316645215
9781107193857 (hardcover)
1107193850
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
147 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PR826 .S735 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.009
Summary
"One may speak of the richness of a sentence, the wealth of its invention, but value feels less metaphoric. Why--and, if so, how deployed here? In what relation to the thread and tread, the texture and pace, of words in their ordered but not ordained row? And what critical investments are implied by even starting with such questions? How will we end up wishing to posit the worth of style in the wording of single sentences by Austen or Hawthorne or Dickens or Conrad or Woolf? Or, more to the point: wanting to ask what style is worth in the work of analysis, as well as in the tenor of response?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Verbal investments: Richness, wealth, value
Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens
Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville
A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond
Inventory: Some terms of engagement: A to Z.
Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens
Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville
A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond
Inventory: Some terms of engagement: A to Z.