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- 题名/责任者:
- Conspicuous silences : implicature and fictionality in the Victorian novel / Ruth Rosaler.
- 版本说明:
- First edition.
- 出版发行项:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- 出版发行项:
- ?2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198769743 (hbk.)
- ISBN:
- 0198769741
- 载体形态项:
- viii, 184 pages ; 23 cm.
- 个人责任者:
- Rosaler, Ruth, author.
- 论题主题:
- English fiction-19th century-History and criticism.
- 论题主题:
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- 论题主题:
- English fiction.
- 论题主题:
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- 中图法分类号:
- I106
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-182) and index.
- 摘要附注:
- How are a reader's perceptions of a plot impacted by its presentation through textual clues rather than explicit narration, and why would an author choose this comparatively indirect mode of narration? 'Conspicuous Silences' answers these questions by examining Victorian novels in which pivotal events are left inexplicit for hundreds of pages at a time, but are nonetheless evident to the reader. The clarity with which readers understand these inexplicit plot lines is evidenced by their ability to follow the progression of narratives that rely heavily on the inexplicit content being detected; without this reader comprehension, these narratives would be deemed incoherent. In linguistics, communications that depend on a hearer's or reader's inference, rather on their 'decoding' the explicit content of an utterance, are termed 'implicatures'. 'Conspicuous Silences' explores the impact that central, sustained implicatures have on a reader's experience of a novel. It also discusses how authors may generate those implicatures by exploiting the reader's assumption of narratorial omniscience, and the correlated reader assumption of a narrative's fictionality.
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