text_combined: voices clash study literary pragmatics j l mey jacob l mey voices clash study literary pragmatics 1998 23 x 15 5 cm xv 454 pages cloth dm 208 approx us 130 00 isbn 311 015820 5 trends linguistics studies monographs 115 mouton de gruyter berlin new york basic difference good bad novel makes us lose thread story interest plot character interrupts necessary process continuously recreating text crucial text consumption successful readership answer questions revolves around notion voice understood way character speaks even way character expresses particular view world voice represents implicit explicit point view focus vocalization implies focalization author says book clashing voices title highlights happens characters run story track derail entire narrative engine book inquires ways collisions derailments caused observed possibly repaired role reader paramount making breaking narrative book examines various linguistic narrativetechnical tricks reader disposal order successfully follow narrative keep thread narrative intact dealing pragmatic problem literary theory book nevertheless written fashion also noninitiated readers taking interest machinery reading process may consult profit whatever claims made book shored lenghty extracts literary works horace fupz aakesson caesar tolstoy way woolf bulgakov wesley byatt numerous others _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter inc postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d10728 berlin hawthorne ny 10532 germany usa fax 49 0 30 26005351 fax 1 914 7471326 email mouton degruyter de publications de gruyter also ordered via world wide web http www degruyter com