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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword to Routledge Classics Edition
Preface
Part I: The Novelist’s Medium and the Novelist’s Art: Problems in Criticism
1
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
2
Concepts of Style
Stylistics
Style and Modern Linguistics
M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics
J. Warburg: Appropriate Choice
F. R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction
3
Conclusions: Principles
Conclusions: Methods
Repetition
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
Afterword to the Second Edition (1984)
References
Index
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