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Reading novels
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ISBN: 0826513999 Year: 2002 Publisher: Nashville: Vanderbilt university press

Negociating with the Dead : a writer on writing
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ISBN: 0521662605 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Conrad, language, and narrative
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ISBN: 1107124573 0521120845 0511303831 0511155263 0511119879 1280162392 0511044488 0511485107 0511018452 9780511018459 9780511119873 9780521807548 0521807549 9780511485107 9780511044489 9781107124578 9780521120845 9780511303838 9780511155260 9781280162398 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. New York Cambridge University Press

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In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of his literary achievement. A trilingual Polish expatriate, Conrad brought a formidable linguistic self-consciousness to the English novel; tensions between speech and writing are the defining obsessions of his career. He sought very early on to develop a 'writing of the voice' based on oral or communal modes of storytelling. Greaney argues that the 'yarns' of his nautical raconteur Marlow are the most challenging expression of this voice-centred aesthetic. But Conrad's suspicion that words are fundamentally untrustworthy is present in everything he wrote. The political novels of his middle period represent a breakthrough from traditional storytelling into the writerly aesthetic of high modernism. Greaney offers an examination of a wide range of Conrad's work which combines recent critical approaches to language in post-structuralism with an impressive command of linguistic theory.

Petronius and the anatomy of fiction
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ISBN: 052181586X 0521037018 0511178034 0511042612 0511148542 0511305389 0511482353 1280436476 0511045832 9780511042614 9780511482359 9780511045837 9780521815864 9781280436475 9780511178030 9780511148545 9780511305382 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. New York Cambridge University Press

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Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exemplary comic realism, condemned as obscene and repackaged as a morality tale. This reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a labyrinth of narratorial viewpoints. Dr Rimell argues that the surviving fragments are connected by an imagery of disintegration, focused on the pervasive Neronian metaphor of the literary text as a human or animal body. Throughout, she discusses the limits of dominant twentieth-century views of the Satyricon as bawdy pantomime, and challenges prevailing restrictions of Petronian corporeality to material or non-metaphorical realms. This 'novel' emerges as both very Roman and very satirical in its 'intestinal' view of reality.

The fictions of language and the languages of fiction : the linguistic representation of speech and consciousness
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ISBN: 0415092264 9780415092265 Year: 2002 Publisher: London : Routledge,

Conrad, language, and narrative
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ISBN: 0521807549 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press

Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition
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ISBN: 1282033905 9786612033902 1442682639 9781442682634 0802048641 9780802048646 9781282033900 6612033908 Year: 2002 Publisher: Toronto

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"In this book, G. Glen Wickens offers a new reading of a work which is often ignored by critics and students of Victorian literature, Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts. Wickens explores the monistic viewpoint of The Dynasts through reference to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century philosophical writings which have never before been applied to Hardy's writing. Using insights derived from the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin - in particular his concept of carnival - Wickens also counters the usual view of The Dynasts as failed epic or tragedy, and instead situates the work as a novel within the serio-comical genres. In doing so, he brings out new, violent implications to Bakhtin's theory of laughter and carnival." "Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition is the first book-length study of Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts since 1977. It will be of interest to Hardy scholars, critics of Bakhtin, and readers interested in monist philosophy or nineteenth-century history."--Jacket.

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