1st Edition
The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction
By Monika Fludernik
Copyright 1993
560 Pages
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Routledge
554 Pages
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Routledge
556 Pages
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Monika Fludernik presents a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse as it relates to narrative theory, and the crucial problematic of how speech and thought are represented in fiction. Building on the insights of Ann Banfield's Unspeakable Sentences , Fludernik radically extends Banfield's model to accommodate evidence from conversational narrative, non-fictional prose and literary works... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations and symbols, Typographical conventions, Introduction, 1 Contexts: the reporting of speech and thought acts, 2 Establishing the object of analysis: an introduction to the free indirect, 3 Indirect and free indirect discourse: aspects of anaphoricity and shifting, 4 Indirect and free indirect discourse: deictic features and expressivity, 5 A scale of forms: speech and thought representation in context, 6 Dual voice and stylistic deviation, 7 Language and consciousness: Ann Banfield’s Unspeakable Sentences and beyond, 8 Schematic language representation, 9 Consequences and conclusions, References, Texts, Criticism, Indexes, Author Index, Subject Index
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Monika Fludernik
