"The Language of Fiction" was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of literature that focuses the reader's attention on the significance of language. This edition has a new foreword from David Lodge and includes in its entirety the comprehensive afterword from the 1984 edition.
"The Language of Fiction" was the first book of criticism by the novelist David Lodge. In it he established a fresh approach to the appreciation of literature that focuses the reader's attention on the significance of language. This edition has a new foreword from David Lodge and includes in its entirety the comprehensive afterword from the 1984 ed
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'Perhaps because he is a good novelist himself, Mr Lodge's subjection of various writers to detailed linguistic analysis is illuminating and exciting.' - Daily Telegraph 'Something of a milestone in English criticism. an important addition to English critical writing about the genre of the novel' - Tony Tanner, The Modern Language Review
PART I The Novelist's Medium and the Novelist's Art: Problems in
Criticism, Introductory Modern Criticism and Literary Language Poetry and
Prose F. W. Bateson: Ideas and Logic Christopher Caudwell: The Current of
Mock Reality The Argument from Translation Proust and Scott Moncrieff
Compared Translation: Poetry and Prose The Argument from Bad Writing The
Modern Movement in Fiction: A Digression Summary of Arguments J. M. Cameron:
These Words in this Order Language and Fictional Illusion F. W. Bateson and
B. Shakevitch: Particularity Conclusions to Section 1, Stylistics Style and
Modern Linguistics M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics J. Warburg:
Appropriate Choice F. R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction, PART II
Introductory 1 The Vocabulary of 'Mansfield Park' 2 Fire and Eyre: Charlotte
Bronte's War of Earthly Elements 3 The Rhetoric of 'Hard Times' 4 Tess,
Nature, and the Voices of Hardy 5 Strether by the River 6 'Tono-Bungay' and
the Condition of England 7 The Modern, The Contemporary, and the Importance
of being Amis.
David Lodge
