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Twentieth-Century Fiction
By applying recent trends in literary and language theory to a range of 20th Century fiction, the contributors to this text make new theoretical insights available to student readers. The analytical and interpretive strategies examined in this book are not intended to be prescriptive, rather they are presented in such a way as to facilitate critical reading and evaluation.
The essays, which are arranged into three groups and which focus on the textual level, narrative and context, look at a wide range of Twentieth Century authors including Fowles, Foster, Lessing and Woolf. In addition, this student-friendly text includes a detailed subject index, a full glossary and helpful suggestions for further reading.
Aimed at beginning students of English Language and Literature and Applied Linguistics, and advanced students of English as a Foreign or Second Language, 20th Century Fiction provides an essential introduction to the subject which is both sensitive and enabling.
The essays, which are arranged into three groups and which focus on the textual level, narrative and context, look at a wide range of Twentieth Century authors including Fowles, Foster, Lessing and Woolf. In addition, this student-friendly text includes a detailed subject index, a full glossary and helpful suggestions for further reading.
Aimed at beginning students of English Language and Literature and Applied Linguistics, and advanced students of English as a Foreign or Second Language, 20th Century Fiction provides an essential introduction to the subject which is both sensitive and enabling.
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First published September 28, 1995
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Peter Verdonk
19 books2 followersPeter Verdonk is Emeritus Professor of Stylistics at the University of Amsterdam, where he started teaching in the early 1970s, after a career in maritime law. His main interests lie in rhetoric, literary criticism, discourse analysis, narratology and cognitive poetics.
His books include Twentieth-century Poetry (Routledge 1993), Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity (with Roger D. Sell, Rodopi 1994), Twentieth-century Fiction (with Jean Jacques Weber, Routledge 1995), and Exploring the Language of Drama (with Jonathan Culpeper and Mick Short, Routledge 1998). His most recent book is Stylistics in the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series (Oxford University Press 2002).
He is a member of the editorial board of Language and Literature (Sage) and co-editor (with Gerard Steen en Willie van Peer) of the book series Linguistic Approaches to Literature (Benjamins). He is an honorary member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
On his retirement, Peter Verdonk was honoured with a festschrift entitled Contextualized Stylistics, edited by Tony Bex, Michael Burke and Peter Stockwell (Rodopi 2000).
His books include Twentieth-century Poetry (Routledge 1993), Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity (with Roger D. Sell, Rodopi 1994), Twentieth-century Fiction (with Jean Jacques Weber, Routledge 1995), and Exploring the Language of Drama (with Jonathan Culpeper and Mick Short, Routledge 1998). His most recent book is Stylistics in the Oxford Introductions to Language Study series (Oxford University Press 2002).
He is a member of the editorial board of Language and Literature (Sage) and co-editor (with Gerard Steen en Willie van Peer) of the book series Linguistic Approaches to Literature (Benjamins). He is an honorary member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
On his retirement, Peter Verdonk was honoured with a festschrift entitled Contextualized Stylistics, edited by Tony Bex, Michael Burke and Peter Stockwell (Rodopi 2000).
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