14. Sources Cited

14.1 Linguistics, pragmatics and the analysis of talk

• Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.
• Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
• Chafe, Wallace. Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
• Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1959.
• Goffman, Erving. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1967. [Includes “On Face-Work”.]
• Goffman, Erving. Forms of Talk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. [Includes “Footing”.]
• Grice, H. P. “Logic and Conversation.” In Syntax and Semantics 3: Speech Acts, edited by Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan, 41–58. New York: Academic Press, 1975. [Reprinted in Studies in the Way of Words, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.]
• Keenan, Elinor Ochs. “The Universality of Conversational Postulates.” Language in Society 5 (1976): 67–80.
• Pomerantz, Anita. “Agreeing and Disagreeing with Assessments: Some Features of Preferred/Dispreferred Turn Shapes.” In Structures of Social Action: Studies in Conversation Analysis, edited by J. Maxwell Atkinson and John Heritage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
• Sacks, Harvey, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Gail Jefferson. “A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation.” Language 50, no. 4 (1974): 696–735.
• Schegloff, Emanuel A., Gail Jefferson, and Harvey Sacks. “The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation.” Language 53, no. 2 (1977): 361–382.
• Schegloff, Emanuel A., and Harvey Sacks. “Opening Up Closings.” Semiotica 8, no. 4 (1973): 289–327.
• Searle, John R. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
• Tannen, Deborah. Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

14.2 Criticism, narratology and theory

• Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Edited by Michael Holquist, translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
• Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Edited and translated by Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
• Banfield, Ann. Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
• Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
• Cohn, Dorrit. Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
• Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Translated by Jane E. Lewin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
• Leech, Geoffrey N., and Michael H. Short. Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose. London: Longman, 1981.
• Page, Norman. Speech in the English Novel. London: Longman, 1973.
• Parkes, M. B. Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993.
• Pratt, Mary Louise. Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977.
• Rabinowitz, Peter J. Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
• Sternberg, Meir. Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
• Wood, James. How Fiction Works. London: Jonathan Cape, 2008.
• Wright, Richard. “Between Laughter and Tears.” New Masses, 5 October 1937. [Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God.]

14.3 Cognitive and empirical studies of reading

• Emmott, Catherine. Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Gerrig, Richard J. Experiencing Narrative Worlds: On the Psychological Activities of Reading. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
• Zunshine, Lisa. Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006.
• Zwaan, Rolf A., and Gabriel A. Radvansky. “Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory.” Psychological Bulletin 123, no. 2 (1998): 162–185.

14.4 Craft literature

• Burroway, Janet. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. Various editions.
• Gardner, John. The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
• Le Guin, Ursula K. Steering the Craft. Rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
• Leonard, Elmore. “Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle.” The New York Times, 16 July 2001.
• McKee, Robert. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting. New York: ReganBooks, 1997.
• McKee, Robert. Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen. New York: Twelve, 2016.
• Swain, Dwight V. Techniques of the Selling Writer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.

14.5 Primary texts discussed

Passages are quoted briefly for the purposes of criticism and study. Where a work was not written in English, the translation used is named.

• Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1958.
• Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813.
• Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. 1953.
• Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847.
• Compton-Burnett, Ivy. A House and Its Head. 1935, and the novels generally.
• Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. 1861; David Copperfield. 1850.
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. 1866; The Brothers Karamazov. 1880. Trans. Constance Garnett.
• Hemingway, Ernest. “Hills Like White Elephants.” In Men Without Women. 1927.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1937.
• Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. 1989.
• James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady. 1881.
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987.
• Saramago, José. Blindness. 1995. Trans. Giovanni Pontiero (1997).
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818.
• Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897.
• Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. 1869.
• Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1884.
• Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. 1895.

14.6 Second-edition sources

Post-2000 and screen works added in the Core chapter, with the sources used to check what is said of them.

• Child, Lee. Make Me. 2015. The recurring line “Reacher said nothing”: Andy Martin, Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me (2015).
• Hallett, Janice. The Appeal. 2021. Told in emails, messages and documents sent by a senior lawyer to two law students.
• McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. 2006. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2007.
• Stuart, Douglas. Shuggie Bain. 2020. Booker Prize, 2020; narration in English, dialogue in Glaswegian Scots.
• The Social Network. Dir. David Fincher, screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. 2010. The opening scene.
• Succession. HBO. Series 2, episode 3, “Hunting”. First broadcast 25 August 2019. Written by Tony Roche, directed by Andrij Parekh.