The Value of Style in Fiction
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- Author: Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa
- Date Published: June 2018
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316645215
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This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis - both appreciative and interpretive in its 'evaluations' - across dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. The Value of Style in Fiction is designed not just for students and scholars of the English novel - and its verbal 'microplots' - but also for anyone interested in mastering the art of the sentence by 'writing along with' its finest examplars in a fully descriptive account: a stylistic challenge in its own right exemplified by Stewart's multifaceted critical modelling. Beginning with a state-of-the-field survey of prose poetics, this manual of invested reading concludes with an 'Inventory' of terms (bolded throughout) drawn primarily from grammar, rhetoric, etymology, and phonetics, but also narratology and poetic theory: a glossary whose consultation can help cross-map certain verbal tendencies in literary-historical evolution and its separate landmark writers.
Read more- The first work to study, across periods, the nuances of novelistic prose style from an interpretive rather than strictly rhetorical perspective
- Offers an extensive introductory chapter that charts the current state of the field in prose poetics
- Offers an inventory of stylistic devices drawn from grammar, phonetics, etymology, and rhetoric, as well as narratology and poetic theory
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'Written in an exacting, witty and distinctive prose style of its own, this book is both a manifesto for reading for style and a first-rate demonstration of it, by a scholar-critic long known for practicing exactly the kind of critical attention called for and modelled here. Given a returning interest in prose poetics, this seems like the right book by the right critic at the right time.' Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
See more reviews'The Value of Style in Fiction ... offers itself to those seeking to learn the craft of attentive reading and inventive writing at the level of the sentence as a form of mini-plot.' Philip Davis, Victorian Studies
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- Date Published: June 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316645215
- length: 152 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 138 x 9 mm
- weight: 0.2kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: verbal investments – richness, wealth, value
2. Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens
3. Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville
4. A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond
5. Inventory: some terms of engagement – A to Z.
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