Index
abstraction and literary criticism 149
accent and Victorian values 151
action
and literary value 191–2
see also narrative; plot
address to reader(s) 23–4, 88
Aeschylus 60
alliteration 11, 26, 203
ambiguity and interpretation 123, 141
Anglo- Irish authors 85
arbitrariness and modernist narrative
105–6, 108
Aristotle 57, 191
Nicomachean Ethics 59–60
Poetics 58–9, 115
artfulness
in Faulkner, William 195–7
in Updike, John 193–4, 197
assumptions and interpretation 147–8
attitudes
author’s attitude to readers 148–9
author’s attitudes and work 12–13,
36, 81–2, 98–102, 138,
157–8
and meaning 146
reception of literary work over time
59, 184–6, 206
and tone 10
audience
and spell of play 6–7
see also readers
Austen, Jane 34, 117, 187
Emma 46
character of Emma Woodhouse
46, 52
Mansfield Park 52
Persuasion 22
Pride and Prejudice 19, 21–3
Sense and Sensibility 35
author
address to reader(s) 23–4, 88
attitude to readers 148–9
attitudes and work 12–13, 36, 81–2,
98–102, 138, 157–8
as fiction 41
and meaning of works 134–5
personal experience and self-
expression 135–9
ulterior motives and plot
manipulations 98–102, 103,
161, 162
autonomous individuals 61, 63
‘Baa baa black sheep’ 128–34, 138, 139,
140–1, 143–4, 147
bad literature 205–6
see also value
Balzac, Honoré de 63
Beckett, Samuel 65, 108, 127, 138
Breath 58
Malone Dies 64
Molloy 83