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| Teranishi, Masayuki |
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| Polyphony in Fiction |
| A Stylistic Analysis of Middlemarch, Nostromo, and Herzog |
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| Year of Publication: 2008 |
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| Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2008. 328 pp. |
ISBN 978-3-03911-363-7  pb. |
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| Book synopsis |
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| The overall aim of this book is the application of stylistic theories and frameworks to literary texts for a deeper level of interpretation. For this purpose the author conducted an analysis based upon the concepts of 'polyphony' and 'focalization' of three novels from different literary periods commonly labeled 'Pre-modernism', 'Modernism', and 'Postmodernism', namely, George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2), Joseph Conrad's Nostromo (1904), and Saul Bellow's Herzog (1964). Inspired by the work of Russian linguist-philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin the author attempts to clarify stylistically how polyphony is textualized in each novel and how each mode of polyphony reflects less parochial literary and cultural trends. |
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| Contents |
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| Contents: 'Pre-modernist', 'Modernist' and 'Postmodernist'? Critical Reviews of Middlemarch, Nostromo and Herzog - Descriptive Framework: The Relation between Polyphony and Focalization - Polyphony and 'Pre-modernism'? A Stylistic Analysis of Middlemarch - A Mode of Polyphony in Nostromo under Modernist Influence - A Stylistic Analysis of Herzog: A Mode of Postmodern Polyphony. |
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| About the author(s)/editor(s) |
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| The Author: Masayuki Teranishi is an associate professor at the School of Human Science and Environment, the University of Hyogo, Japan. He obtained an M.A. in English Literary Studies, and in 2004 a Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. His current interests lie in English stylistics, specifically in the study of prose fiction, cognitive stylistics and pedagogical stylistics. |
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