Language in Popular Fiction
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| ISBN13: | 9780367744557 |
| ISBN10: | 0367744554 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 180 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 453 g |
| Language: | English |
| 467 |
First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in thrillers and romantic fiction.
First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in thrillers and romantic fiction.
The book examines the use of language across three interrelated levels: a level of verbal organisation, a level of narrative structure, and a level at which stylistic options and devices are related to notions of gender. It introduces ?the protocol of pulchritude? and makes use of detailed stylistic and linguistic analysis to investigate a wide range of ?popfiction? and ?magfiction?. In doing so, it provokes serious reflection on popular fiction and its claims on the reader.
1: Prelude: in the airport lounge; 2: Woman?s place: a dip into the magazines; 3: Man?s business: a look round the action story; 4: Beginnings, middles, and ends: some sample pieces; 5: Standard ingredients: faces, places, fights, embraces; Postscript: and so to bed; References and bibliographical note; Index
