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Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose

Michael Toolan, Geoffrey Leech, Michael N. Short

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Foreword Introduction Part I: Approaches and methods 1. Style and Choice 2. Style, Text and Frequency 3. A Method of Analysis and some Examples 4. Levels of Style Part II: Aspects of style 5. Language and the Fictional World 6. Mind Style 7. The Rhetoric of Text 8. Discourse and Discourse Situation 9. Conversation in the Novel 10. Speech and Thought Presentation Passages and topics for further study Further reading Bibliography Index of works discussed General index

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Key concepts: Style (visual arts), Rhetoric, Linguistics, Index (typography), Conversation, Presentation (obstetrics), Reading (process), Writing style