George Eliot’s Remainder-Man
In an epigraph to one of the chapters of Felix Holt, George Eliot likens vulgar jokers to a turkey-cock: “it has a cruel beak,” she writes, “and a silly iteration of ugly sounds…”. This paper is about cruel beaks and silly iterations, about verbal aggression and repetition in George Eliot’s writing...
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| Dans: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/polysemes, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Polysèmes
2017
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |