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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811661503321

Autore

Sabin Margery <1940->

Titolo

The dialect of the tribe : speech and community in modern fiction / / Margery Sabin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987

ISBN

1-280-60522-7

0-19-536477-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

823.91209

823/.912/09

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Speech in literature

Comparative literature - English and French

Comparative literature - French and English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Life of English Idiom, the Laws of French Cliché; 2 The Community of Intelligence and the Avant-Garde; 3 Competition of Intelligence in The Golden Bowl; 4 Constructing Character: Speech and Will in Women in Love; 5 Near and Far Things in Lawrence's Writing of the Twenties; 6 Postures and Impostures of English in Ulysses; 7 Signs of Life and Death in Beckett's Trilogy; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The bold careers of Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett--writers with profoundly unsettled cultural identities--spark Margery Sabin's investigation of values carried through inherited forms of speech. The Dialect of the Tribe offers fresh readings of such great novels as The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, Ulysses, and the Beckett trilogy which illustrate how complex attitudes toward the speech forms of language inform the most varied social, psychological, and aesthetic structures in modern fiction. Sabin explores the powerful tension in these writers between appreciation