| Description |
1 online resource (x, 310 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Introduction; 1 The Life of English Idiom, the Laws of French Clich; 2 The Community of Intelligence and the Avant-Garde; 3 Competition of Intelligence in The Golden Bowl; 4 Constructing Character: Speech and Will in Women in Love; 5 Near and Far Things in Lawrence's Writing of the Twenties; 6 Postures and Impostures of English in Ulysses; 7 Signs of Life and Death in Beckett's Trilogy; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
The bold careers of Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett--writers with profoundly unsettled cultural identities--spark Margery Sabin's investigation of values carried through inherited forms of speech. The Dialect of the Tribe offers fresh readings of such great novels as The Golden Bowl, Women in Love, Ulysses, and the Beckett trilogy which illustrate how complex attitudes toward the speech forms of language inform the most varied social, psychological, and aesthetic structures in modern fiction. Sabin explores the powerful tension in these writers between appreciation |
| Analysis |
Fiction in English, 1900- - Critical studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-306) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
James, Henry, 1843-1916. Golden bowl.
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Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Fictional works
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses.
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| SUBJECT |
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast |
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 fast |
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Beckett, Samuel. swd |
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James, Henry. (The) golden bowl. swd |
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Joyce, James. Ulysses. swd |
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Lawrence, David H. swd |
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Golden bowl (James, Henry) fast |
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Ulysses (Joyce, James) fast |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Speech in literature.
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Communities in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Communities in literature
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Criticism and interpretation
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English fiction
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Language and languages
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Speech in literature
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Sprache
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Roman
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
86008431 |
| ISBN |
9780195364774 |
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0195364775 |
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1280605227 |
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9781280605222 |
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