Literature As Conduct : Speech Acts in Henry James.
The work of a master critic, this book draws on speech act theory, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in Henry James's fiction. The author shows that three modes of speech act occur in James's novels and the action of each work is brought about by its own idiosyn...
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| Language: | English |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2005.
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