An edition of The reader in the Dickens world
(1981)
The reader in the Dickens world
style and response
by Susan R. Horton
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This book describes the complex feelings of surprise, puzzlement, delight and betrayal prompted in the reader as he makes his way through what Humphrey House first called "The Dickens World." More importantly, it identifies the causes for those conflicting feelings. Other recent books have suggested they are the result of Dickens's practice of creating "multi-plot novels" that present "competing structural principles." Professor Horton suggests that those conflicting feelings can be seen to be generated at the stylistic level. - Jacket flap.
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Style, Reader-response criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Dickens, charles, 1812-1870People
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The reader in the Dickens world: style and response
1981, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Reader in the Dickens World: Style and Response
1981, Palgrave Macmillan
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1349050636 9781349050635
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The reader in the Dickens world: style and response
1981, Macmillan
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The Reader in the Dickens World: Style and Response
Jan 01, 1981, Palgrave Macmillan
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Note on the texts
Introduction
Intention, text and response
Sequence and consequence : from truckling knave to trickling blood
The reader at work. The rhetorics of image and idea
Rhetoric and plot
The reticent rhetorician
The rhetoric of "seems"
The world beyond the Dickens world. Dickens's peripheral vision
The huddle
The double vision
The time telescope and the labyrinth of the conditional : the expanding world in time and possibility
The dynamics of description. Description as re-creation
Description as defence
Descriptions and repetitions
One reader reading : the reader in The Old Curiosity Shop
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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