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The Technology of the Novel : Writing and Narrative in British Fiction by Tony E. Jackson is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex relationship, Tony E. Jackson explains how the technology of alphabetic writing has determined the nature of the modern novel. Jackson's analysis begins with the universal human act of oral storytelling. While telling stories is fundamental to human experience, writing is not. Yet the novel, perhaps more than any other literary form, depend
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- Author
- Tony E. Jackson
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801892448
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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