Narrative silences in Far from the Madding Crowd
The article examines the punctuation marks that signal narrative silences in Far from the Madding Crowd. There are three series of typographical silence-markers: “2-m rules” or “2-m dashes”, “ellipses”, and “m rules” or “m dashes”. These typographical signs, hardly noticed on first reading the text...
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| 發表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom, |
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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FATHOM
2013
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | The article examines the punctuation marks that signal narrative silences in Far from the Madding Crowd. There are three series of typographical silence-markers: “2-m rules” or “2-m dashes”, “ellipses”, and “m rules” or “m dashes”. These typographical signs, hardly noticed on first reading the text but necessarily interpreted by the reader, reproduce interruptions of speech which encapsulate some intense axiological exchange connected with the judgements on the characters’ thoughts or actions that the text leads us to pass. The markers thus take on various functions (from mimesis to suspense and to the narrator’s comments) which are essential to maintaining verisimilitude. The article ends on an assessment of such a persuasive strategy and of its effect on the reader, in a text which is undeniably influenced by the format of the serial publication it originally appeared under. |
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