Jennifer C. Cook

Machine and Metaphor

The Ethics of Language in American Realism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780415978354
• ISBN-10: 0415978351
• Artikelnr.: 22128462

Autorenporträt

Jennifer C. Cook

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Humbug Talky-Talk: Rhetoric
Ethics
Mechanics in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2. Stephen Crane's The Monster : Iteration
Ethics
and the Engine of Convention 3. A Conflict of Languages: The Rhetoric of Reason and the Call to Metaphor in The Conjure Woman 4. On the Brink of Eloquence: Circulation
Silence
and The 'Fitting Word' in The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome 5. Telling the Tale Over Again: Reclaiming Repetition in Winesburg
Ohio and Death in the Woods Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index