LEADER 02719nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910817274003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-3539-4 010 $a0-8232-4812-7 010 $a0-8232-2539-9 010 $a1-4237-9650-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000464958 035 $a(EBL)3239392 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000193151 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11937204 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193151 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215619 035 $a(PQKB)10102677 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021275 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239392 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000464958 100 $a20050531d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiterature as conduct $espeech acts in Henry James /$fJ. Hillis Miller 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-2537-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-343) and index. 327 $a""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Primary Text and Abbrevations""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: History, Narrative, Responsibility: ""The Aspern Papers""""; ""Chapter 2: The Story of a Kiss: Isabela???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"" 327 $a""Index"" 330 8 $aThe 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. 606 $aSpeech in literature 606 $aOral communication in literature 606 $aConduct of life in literature 606 $aSpeech acts (Linguistics) 615 0$aSpeech in literature. 615 0$aOral communication in literature. 615 0$aConduct of life in literature. 615 0$aSpeech acts (Linguistics) 676 $a813/.4 700 $aMiller$b J. Hillis$g(Joseph Hillis),$f1928-$0251308 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817274003321 996 $aLiterature as conduct$94192854 997 $aUNINA