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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817274003321

Autore

Miller J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), <1928->

Titolo

Literature as conduct : speech acts in Henry James / / J. Hillis Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-8232-3539-4

0-8232-4812-7

0-8232-2539-9

1-4237-9650-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

813/.4

Soggetti

Speech in literature

Oral communication in literature

Conduct of life in literature

Speech acts (Linguistics)

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 (p. 327-343) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Primary Text and Abbrevations""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: History, Narrative, Responsibility: ""The Aspern Papers""""; ""Chapter 2: The Story of a Kiss: Isabelà‚€?s Decisions in The Portrait of a Lady""; ""Chapter 3: Unworked and Unavowable: Community in The Awkward Age""; ""Chapter 4: Lying against Death: The Wings of the Dove""; ""Chapter 5: ""Conscious Perjury"": Declarations of Ignorance in The Golden Bowl""; ""Chapter 6: The ""Quasi-Turn-of-Screw Effect,"" or How to Raise a Ghost with Words: The Sense of the Past""; ""Notes""

""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The work of a master critic, this book draws on speech act theory, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in Henry James's fiction. The author shows that three modes of speech act occur in James's novels and the action of each work is brought about by its own idiosyncratic repertoire.