The Language of Fiction

Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

By: David Lodge

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Paperback | 12 September 2002 | Edition Number 2

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Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge.

His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded in communicating a radically new vision of English literature to a readership that reached well beyond the bounds of the academy.

Now reissued with a new foreword, this major work from the pen of one of England's finest living writers is essential reading for all those who care about the creation and appreciation of literature.

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'Perhaps because he is a good novelist himself, Mr Lodge's subjection of various writers to detailed linguistic analysis is illuminating and exciting.' - Daily Telegraph

'Perhaps because he is a good novelist himself, Mr Lodge's sujection of various writers to detailed linguistic analysis is illuminating and exciting.' - Daily Telegraph

'Something of a milestone in English criticism ... an important addition to English critical writing about the genre of the novel' - Tony Tanner, The Modern Language Review

'... in many ways the most interesting of recent books on the novel, knowledgeable and closely argued.' - William Righter, The Listener

'readable, sensitive, perceptive' - Robert Scholes, Contemporary Literature

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Foreword to Routledge Classics Edition
Preface
Modern Criticism and Literary Language	p. 7
Poetry and Prose	p. 8
F. W. Bateson: Ideas and Logic	p. 13
Christopher Caudwell: The Current of Mock Reality	p. 16
The Argument from Translation	p. 19
Proust and Scott Moncrieff Compared	p. 22
Translation: Poetry and Prose	p. 25
The Argument from Bad Writing	p. 28
The Modern Movement in Fiction: A Digression	p. 30
Summary of Arguments	p. 32
J. M. Cameron: These Words in this Order	p. 35
Language and Fictional Illusion	p. 41
F. W. Bateson and B. Shakevitch: Particularity	p. 45
Conclusions to Section 1	p. 49
Concepts of Style	p. 52
Stylistics	p. 55
Style and Modern Linguistics	p. 60
M. Riffaterre: Scientific Stylistics	p. 61
J. Warburg: Appropriate Choice	p. 64
F. R. Leavis and the Moral Dimension of Fiction	p. 69
Conclusions: Principles	p. 74
Conclusions: Methods	p. 83
Repetition	p. 87
The Vocabulary of 'Mansfield Park'	p. 98
Fire and Eye: Charlotte Bronte's War of Earthly Elements	p. 120
The Rhetoric of 'Hard Times'	p. 153
Tess, Nature, and the Voices of Hardy	p. 174
Strether by the River	p. 200
'Tono-Bungay' and the Condition of England	p. 227
The Modern, The Contemporary, and the Importance of being Amis	p. 259
Afterword to the Second Edition (1984)	p. 286
References	p. 301
Index	p. 315
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