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Fiction and Repetition - Seven English Novels (Paperback)
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Fiction and Repetition - Seven English Novels (Paperback)
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In Fiction and Repetition, one of our leading critics and literary
theorists offers detailed interpretations of seven novels: Emily
Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Thackeray's Henry Esmond, Hardy's Tess
of the d'Urbervilles and The Well-Beloved, Conrad's Lord Jim, and
Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Between the Acts. Miller explores the
multifarious ways in which repetition generates meaning in these
novels-repetition of images, metaphors, motifs; repetition on a
larger scale of episodes, characters, plots; and repetition from
one novel to another by the same or different authors. While
repetition creates meanings, it also, Miller argues, prevents the
identification of a single determinable meaning for any of the
novels; rather, the patterns made by the various repetitive
sequences offer alternative possibilities of meaning which are
incompatible. He thus sees "undecidability" as an inherent feature
of the novels discussed. His conclusions make a provocative
contribution to current debates about narrative theory and about
the principles of literary criticism generally. His book is not a
work of theory as such, however, and he avoids the technical
terminology dear to many theorists; his book is an attempt to
interpret as best he can his chosen texts. Because of his rare
critical gifts and his sensitivity to literary values and nuances,
his readings send one back to the novels with a new appreciation of
their riches and their complexities of form.
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