> 1998. 23 x 15,5 cm. XV, 454 pages
> Cloth DM 208,-/approx. US$ 130.00
> ISBN 3-11-015820-5
> Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 115
>
> Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York
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>What is the basic difference between a good and a bad novel? What
>makes us lose the `thread' of the story (and interest in the plot and
>the character)? What is it that interrupts the necessary process of
>continuously re-creating the text that are so crucial for text
>consumption and successful readership? The answer to these questions
>revolves around the notion of voice, understood not only as the way a
>character speaks but, even more so, the way a character expresses a
>particular view of the world. A voice represents an (implicit or
>explicit) point of view, a focus. Vocalization implies focalization,
>as the author says in the book.
>
>The clashing of voices that the title highlights happens when
>characters run off the story track and, by doing so, derail the entire
>narrative engine. The book inquires into the ways in which those
>collisions and derailments are caused, observed, and possibly
>repaired. The role of the reader is here paramount in making or
>breaking the narrative. The book examines the various linguistic and
>narrative-technical `tricks' that the reader has at his or her
>disposal in order to successfully follow the narrative and keep the
>thread of the narrative intact.
>
>While dealing with a pragmatic problem in literary theory, the book
>nevertheless is written in such a fashion that also non-initiated
>readers, taking an interest in the machinery of the reading process,
>may consult it with profit. Whatever claims are made in the book are
>shored up by lenghty extracts from literary works, from Horace to Fupz
>Aakesson, from Caesar to Tolstoy, by way of Woolf, Bulgakov, Wesley,
>Byatt, and numerous others.
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