Linguistics and the Novel

by Roger Fowler

An attempt to apply linguistic methods to the structure of fiction. Fowler illustrates this approach with reference to a wide variety of novelists including Fielding, Sterne, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Hemingway.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1977

Reviews

[Carly · Rating 5 out of 5]

not only a super interesting read, but a great set of recommendations for fiction and academic texts!

[A L]

Novels and stories are overlapping structures of interpretation, semantics, and social-linguistic conventions; "mind-style" is a great concept.