Language and Style in the Inheritors - Couverture rigide

Hoover, David L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761812636 ISBN 13 : 9780761812630

Editeur : University Press of America, 1999

Synopsis

Language 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David L. Hoover is a linguistic consultant and Associate Professor of English at New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761812636
• ISBN 13: 9780761812630
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible