Defamiliarizing reality: AS IF and SEEM in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road
This article sheds light on the role played by SEEM and AS IF-clauses in The Famished Road by Ben Okri. It is argued that these constructions portray the protagonist Azaro’s “conceived reality” (Langacker 2008) and are therefore pivotal in the defamiliarization of reality at work in the novel. Those...
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| Language: | Anglais |
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Etudes de stylistique anglaise
2019
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |