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



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Autore: Sabin Margery <1940-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The dialect of the tribe : speech and community in modern fiction / / Margery Sabin Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
Disciplina: 823.91209
823/.912/09
Soggetto topico: English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Speech in literature
Comparative literature - English and French
Comparative literature - French and English
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
Titolo autorizzato: The dialect of the tribe  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-60522-7
0-19-536477-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811661503321
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