Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
|
Buy Now
The Dialect of the Tribe - Speech and Community in Modern Fiction (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R984
Discovery Miles 9 840
You Save: R1,082
(52%)
|
|
The Dialect of the Tribe - Speech and Community in Modern Fiction (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
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 for the resources of common speech in English
and contrary longings for a freedom associated with abstraction,
system, and foreign or private language. Her own critical
procedures transcend restrictive and reductive polarizations, as
she lucidly analyzes the biases of both the Anglo-American critical
tradition and the challenge to that tradition in French literary
theory and practice. Written in a jargon-free, accessible style,
The Dialect of the Tribe argues that the ambiguous cultural
positions of the great modern novelists in English emerge as a
major source of their strength--the rich traditions of the English
language give enlivening power to writers also remarkable for their
drive toward radical independence and skepticism.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.