The Language of Fiction by Lodge David
Author:Lodge, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
* Mary McCarthy has suggested that an anonymous ‘he’ at the beginning of a novel usually moves the reader to sympathetic identification.10 That the effect is quite the reverse in this example shows that the effect of any narrative strategy is determined finally by the narrator’s language.
* My attention was first directed to this (apart from the characterization of Mrs Sparsit) by a Birmingham undergraduate, Miss Margaret Thomas. Possibly it has been observed before, but I have not been able to find it in Dickens criticism.
* Compare E. M. Forster, a master of this device, in A Room with a View (George Emerson has been indiscreet enough to mention in company that his father is taking a bath):
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