Polyphony in Fiction
A Stylistic Analysis of "Middlemarch</I>, "Nostromo</I>, and "Herzog</I>
©2008
Monographs
328 Pages
Summary
The overall aim of this book is the application of stylistic theories and frameworks to literary texts for a deeper level of interpretation. For this purpose the author conducted an analysis based upon the concepts of ‘polyphony’ and ‘focalization’ of three novels from different literary periods commonly labeled ‘Pre-modernism’, ‘Modernism’, and ‘Postmodernism’, namely, George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-2), Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo (1904), and Saul Bellow’s Herzog (1964). Inspired by the work of Russian linguist-philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin the author attempts to clarify stylistically how polyphony is textualized in each novel and how each mode of polyphony reflects less parochial literary and cultural trends.
Details
- Pages
- 328
- Publication Year
- 2008
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783039113637
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Literaturtheorie Eliot, George Middlemarch Literarischer Stil Bachtin, Michail M. Stylistic theories Post, Pre, Modernism Parochial Cultural trends
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2008. 328 pp.
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