Language and Style in The InheritorsLanguage and Style in The Inheritors; links the linguistic characteristics of the language of William Golding's underappreciated second novel with larger stylistic and thematic issues to achieve a satisfying and persuasive interpretation while also demonstrating the usefulness and effectiveness(and some of the limitations) of linguistic and computer-assisted approaches, without being overwhelmingly theoretical or technical. This analysis uses comparative data from a corpus of more than thirty British and American novels to compare and contrast with the contents of The Inheritors. It begins with a discussion of point of view, style, and interpretation and moves into an examination of The Inheritors in regard to other works that focus on it. The author then provides a discussion of Golding's manipulation of transitivity to produce the animistic character of the novel, and a statistical analysis of its readability, sentence complexity, and vocabulary complexity, followed by an analysis of diction. He concludes with an integration of the linguistic discoveries with important thematic issues, and a consideration of altered versions of The Inheritors. |
Contents
Point of View Style and Interpretation | 1 |
A Famous Analysis Revisited | 19 |
Transitivity Agency and Animism | 53 |
Copyright | |
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Age of Innocence agency animism animistic appear arms baby beginning boat body bone British novels bushes chapter characteristics claims corpora Dracula effect examination example eyes face fictional world fifty most frequent fire frequent nouns frequent words Golding Golding's Graph hair Halliday Halliday's analysis hand hapax legomena Howards End human agents Human Bondage inanimate objects INHB Inheritors section intransitive kurtosis lack language Liku Liku's literary Lok's feet looked Marlan meaning mental process mind style mouth names Neanderthals Nineteen Eighty-Four Novel Corpus novel sections number of words occur occurrences per million old woman peculiar picture point of view Ranks reader Return of Sherlock river sail seems sentences Sherlock Holmes significant smell statistics stick strange stylistic subjects of verbs suggests Tanakil textual transitive action transitive verbs tree Tuami twig understand unusual Vocabulary Measures vocabulary richness word freq word types WordPerfect