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By:Masayuki Teranishi
Published on 2008 by Peter Lang
ISBN 9783039113637
Synopsis
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.
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