Ruth Rosaler

Conspicuous Silences: Implicature and Fictionality in the Victorian Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

How are a reader's perceptions of a plot impacted by its presentation through textual clues rather than explicit narration, and why would an author choose this comparatively indirect mode of narration? Conspicuous Silences examines the effect of this literary strategy on the reader's experience of a selection of Victorian novels.

Produktdetails

• Oxford English Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780198769743
• ISBN-10: 0198769741
• Artikelnr.: 47870217

Autorenporträt

Ruth Rosaler has a BA from Dartmouth College, an MA in Victorian Studies from the University of Exeter, and a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on narrative theoretical principles, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction, and the valuation of fiction. This is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Pragmatics and Fictional Narrative
1: The Unarticulated Antinarratable: Illegitimate Pregnancy and the Pragmatics of Politeness
2: Unspoken Desires: Representations of Semiconsciousness and Control
3: The Narrative Tease: Open Secrets in Sensation Fiction
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index