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  1. The demotic voice in contemporary British fiction
    Author: Scott, Jeremy
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    This book is an assessment of narrative technique in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the experimental use of the demotic voice (regional or national dialects). The book examines the work of James Kelman, Graham Swift, Will Self and Martin... more

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    This book is an assessment of narrative technique in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the experimental use of the demotic voice (regional or national dialects). The book examines the work of James Kelman, Graham Swift, Will Self and Martin Amis, amongst many others, from a practical as well as theoretical perspective. This book is an assessment of narrative technique in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the experimental use of the demotic voice (regional or national dialects). The book examines the work of James Kelman, Graham Swift, Will Self and Martin Amis, amongst many others, from a practical as well as theoretical perspective

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1282533177; 0230217575; 9780230236882; 9781282533172; 9780230217577
    Subjects: Sociolinguistics in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); English fiction; English fiction; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vii, 272 p), 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-262) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: A Story So Far?; 2 Paradigms: A Taxonomy of Narrative Technique; 3 Antecedents: 'The right to write a voice'; 4 Graham Swift's Last Orders: The Polyphonic Novel; 5 How Late It Was, How Late for James Kelman's 'Folk Novel'; 6 Alan Warner: Art-Speech and the Morvern Paradox; 7 The Demotic, the Mandarin and the Proletentious: Martin Amis, Will Self and English Art-Speech; 8 Pitfalls and Potentialities: Niall Griffiths and Anne Donovan; 9 Conclusions: The Clamouring Continues…; Notes; Bibliography; Index