Jane Austen's free indirect style : a linguistic ethnography

Jane Austen's free indirect style : a linguistic ethnography

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This study assesses the relationship between the diffusion of free indirect discourse and the decline of the British epistolary novel in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Studying the works of a single stylist, Jane Austen, and her engagement with the mobility of the letter genre...

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Main Author: Wajsberg, Jeffrey
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40337
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spelling ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-BVAU.2429-403372014-03-26T03:38:30Z Jane Austen's free indirect style : a linguistic ethnography Wajsberg, Jeffrey This study assesses the relationship between the diffusion of free indirect discourse and the decline of the British epistolary novel in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Studying the works of a single stylist, Jane Austen, and her engagement with the mobility of the letter genre at the turn of the century, it synthesizes literary-historical, linguistic, and narratological perspectives on discourse representation in order to evaluate claims that Austen was the “pioneer” of this free indirect style, and to comment on how her simultaneous shift in genre from the first-person epistolary mode to third-person classical realism informs that style’s development. 2012-01-27T18:02:02Z 2012-01-27T18:02:02Z 2012 2012-01-27 2012-05 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40337 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canada University of British Columbia
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description This study assesses the relationship between the diffusion of free indirect discourse and the decline of the British epistolary novel in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Studying the works of a single stylist, Jane Austen, and her engagement with the mobility of the letter genre at the turn of the century, it synthesizes literary-historical, linguistic, and narratological perspectives on discourse representation in order to evaluate claims that Austen was the “pioneer” of this free indirect style, and to comment on how her simultaneous shift in genre from the first-person epistolary mode to third-person classical realism informs that style’s development.
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