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From:Style (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe language of Hardy's novels is conspicuous. His use of the passive voice, his reflexive constructions, his counterfactuals, his unexpected expressions of uncertainty, the representation of an unknown person as a...
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From:Style (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThackeray is one of the most successful pasticheurs in the language, so accomplished in his evocation of the eighteenth century that we are barely conscious of the mechanisms by which he achieves success in the field....
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From:Style (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere is nothing in D. H. Lawrence's novel about catching poachers, controlling predators, and most of the gamekeeper's work. Focusing on Connie and Mellors' relationship, Lawrence does not describe the keeper's...
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From:Style (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article introduces the reader to Jane Austen's writings from age eleven to seventeen, all of which are quite unlike anything she wrote in her novels insofar as good manners are their target, not norm. The word...
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From:Style (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues that the modern notion of immersion, a reader being absorbed in a virtual world to such a degree that she experiences it as if it were the actual world, has a predecessor in the ancient notion of...
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From:Style (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe central conflicts of Stephen King's horror novel The Shining are rooted in human nature and reflect evolutionarily recurrent adaptive problems--the problem of balancing conflicting evolved motives, such as motives...