Point of view, transitivity and modality in ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’
This post has been removed because the content is now available in book form with many other essays and blog posts previously available on this site. The book is titled Ungrammaticalities: Linguistic Literary Criticism from ‘The Battle of Maldon’ to Muriel Spark, and it is available for purchase HERE from August 2024.
Please see this page for the cover art and table of contents.
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Reblogged this on a dynamic reader and commented:
An accessible survey of ‘point of view’ with interesting examples, analysis and a flood of footnotes! Part 3 of 4 on a stylistic approach to literature but very useful for anyone interested in narrative theories, or just attentive reading.
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Thank you for the reblog!
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You’re very welcome. I’ve been enjoying this series back-to-front.I might have more to say when I get to the beginning! And I hope the reblog sends a few other curious readers your way.
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Thank you! The introduction is entitled ‘What is stylistics’, just in case you can’t find it. All this was written more than ten years ago and doesn’t take into account recent developments in cognitive poetics, but I don’t think anything I’ve represented here has been actively discredited. Having said that, the chapter on speech and thought representation is looking a bit old hat these days, but hey ho!
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Didn’t seem that old hat to me but I’m still playing catch up! Saw this and thought of Aunty Muriel.
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Oh yes, thank you – I like this very much!
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