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Similes, puns and counterfactuals in literary narrative / Jennifer Riddle Harding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harding, Jennifer Riddle, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in rhetoric and stylistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simile.
- Puns and punning.
- Figures of speech in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 171 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introduction to similes, puns, and counterfactuals in literary narrative
- Similes
- Drunken eloquence: similes in John Updike's "Transaction"
- Puns
- Very punny: puns in Bret Harte's "The luck of Roaring Camp"
- Counterfactuals
- Complex regrets: counterfactuals in Ernest Hemingway's "The snows of Kilimanjaro"
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138928138
- 1138928135
- OCLC:
- 975371918
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