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The seven essays gathered in this volume are all concerned, more or less directly, with the ""unspeakable sentences"" of fictional narration, that is, the sentences that do not bear any explicit mark nor any implicit indication of a first person and which are not interpretable as the expression of a speaker's subjectivity. Chief among them are the sentences of free indirect style, which this book prefers to call sentences of ""represented speech and thought."" All of these essays were written after the publication of Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1982). They take up its theoretical frameworks and extend its analyses into other contexts, where they acquire other uses, other functions, and other values. Taken as a whole, this work bears witness to the richness and vitality of the encounter between linguistics, philosophy, and the theory and analysis of narrative and the novel.

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Ann Banfield is Professor Emerita in the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1982; 2014) and The Phantom Table: Woolf, Fry, Russell and the Epistemology of Modernism (2000) and the translator of Jean-Claude Milner's L'Amour de la langue (1990). She has published articles on represented speech and thought (""free indirect style"") and tense in narrative, as well as on Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and William Morris, in New Literary History, Poetics Today, Diacritics and Yale French Studies.Sylvie Patron is Maître de Conférences Habilitée in French Language and Literature at the University of Paris Diderot. She is the author of Le Narrateur: Introduction à la théorie narrative (2009; 2016) and La Mort du narrateur et autres essais (2015), among other books, and has edited several collections on narrative theory in both French and English. She has also translated articles on linguistics and narrative theory into French, including S.-Y. Kuroda's Pour une théorie poétique de la narration (2012), issued in English as Toward a Poetic Theory of Narration: Essays by S.-Y. Kuroda (2014). She is Vice-President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative.

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