Cultural climate and linguistic style : change in English fictional prose from the late Victorian to the early modern period
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Cultural climate and linguistic style : change in English fictional prose from the late Victorian to the early modern period
Macmillan, 1989
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  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Bibliography: p. 167-168
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the relation between culture and syntax at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. It acknowledges a shift of sensibility during the period from the sureness of empiricism to the doubt and uncertainty of idealism. Added to this, there was also a transfer from a pragmatic and extrovert "Weltanschauung" to a syntax characterized by a subjective appeal to the imagination. The analysis of particular syntactic features in a random selection of novels of the time shows, through comparisons between authors, clear differences of usage which may be seen to reflect current social upheaval.
Table of Contents
- Patterns of language - Pater's "Marius the Epicurean", Meredith's "The Egoist", Gissing's "New Grub Street", Conrad's "Nostromo", Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers", Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
- the nominal group - Gissing's "New Grub Street" and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"
- the verbal group - Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" and Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
- the adjunct - Conrad's "Nostromo" and Meredith's "The Egoist".
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