The Rocks and Sticks of Words: Style, Discourse and Narrative Structure in the Fiction of Patrick White |
Contents
| 7 | |
| 11 | |
| 33 | |
WALDOS SECTION 2 | 43 |
RECURSIVE ORDERING OF TEMPORAL RELATIONS 3 | 65 |
DOUBLINGS | 79 |
TIME AND THE NARRATIVE MOMENT | 107 |
SLIPPING IN SECTION 1 | 123 |
DISTRIBUTION OF DISJUNCTIVE OR ATACTIC SENTENCES 9 | 309 |
SPEECH TAGS | 311 |
SPEECHTAG DISTRIBUTION | 317 |
MODIFICATION OF TAGS OTHER THAN SAY | 358 |
INDEXICAL DETAIL | 363 |
TEMPORAL SCHEME NARREMIC RECONSTRUCTION OF FABULA 57 | 367 |
141 | 394 |
BROADER PERSPECTIVES | 409 |
NARRATION AND CHARACTER | 137 |
INDICES TO FIGURAL PERCEPTION AND INFERENCE 5 | 141 |
ASPECT MODE AND TENSE | 173 |
CONCESSIVES AND CONDITIONALS 6 | 188 |
LEXIS RHETORIC AND FIGURATION | 205 |
PSYCHOLOGICAL VERBS | 211 |
LEXICAL AMBIGUITY IN SECTION 1 | 249 |
COHESION AND DEIXIS | 259 |
SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND COHESION | 288 |
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Page 30 - Style is understood as an emphasis (expressive, affective or aesthetic) added to the information conveyed by the linguistic structure, without alteration of meaning.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Rocks and Sticks of Words: Style, Discourse and Narrative Structure in the Fiction of Patrick White Volume 5 of Cross/cultures: readings in the post-colonial literatures in English |
| Author | Gordon Collier |
| Publisher | Rodopi, 1992 |
| ISBN | 9051833938, 9789051833935 |
| Length | 499 pages |
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