Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays : Unspeakable Sentences after Unspeakable Sentences, edited by Sylvie Patron,

Ann Banfield (1)

1 LBNL - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley]

The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned, more or less directly, with the “unspeakable sentences” of fictional narration, that is, sentences that do not bear any explicit mark nor any implicit indication of a first person and which are not interpretable as the expression of a speaker’s subjectivity. Chief among them are the sentences of free indirect style, which this book prefers to call sentences of “represented speech and thought.” All of these essays were written after the publication of Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1982). They take up its theoretical frameworks and extend its analyses into other contexts, where they acquire other uses, other functions, and other values. Taken as a whole, this work bears witness to the richness and vitality of the encounter between linguistics, philosophy, and the theory and analysis of narrative and the novel.

Domaines: Linguistique; Littératures

Ann Banfield. Describing the Unobserved and Other Essays : Unspeakable Sentences after Unspeakable Sentences, edited by Sylvie Patron,. Sylvie Patron. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. ⟨hal-01995793⟩