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Phantom Sentences; Essays in linguistics and literature presented to Ann Banfield

Phantom Sentences; Essays in linguistics and literature presented to Ann Banfield

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Ann Banfield - professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley - is best known for her groundbreaking contributions to narrative theory. Working within the paradigm of generative linguistics, she argued that the language of fiction is characterized by two &«unspeakable sentences», i.e., sentences that do not properly occur in the spoken language: the sentence of &«pure narration» and the sentence of &«represented speech and thought» (style indirect libre or erlebte Rede).
More recently, Banfield offered a major reconsideration of the novels of Virginia Woolf and modernism in light of the philosophy of knowledge developed by G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, and appropriated by Roger Fry in his critical analyses of impressionism and post-impressionism.
The essays gathered here pay tribute to Banfield by addressing those disciplines and topics most closely related to her work, including: narrative theory and pragmatics, the philosophy of language and knowledge, generative syntax, meter and phonology, and modernism.

Book information

ISBN: 9783039112227
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint: Peter Lang
Pub date:
Edition: New edition 1
DEWEY: 808.0014
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 482
Weight: 772g
Height: 157mm
Width: 246mm
Spine width: 31mm