Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-320) and index.
Speech representation, focalization and narration in The great Gatsby -- Time and narrative: Faulkner's The sound and the fury -- Slippery stuff: the construction of character in The sun also rises -- The dynamics of reading: A lost lady -- The portrait of a lady and The house of mirth: a Barthesian reading -- The clash of language: Bakhtin and Huckleberry Finn -- A medley of voices: Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God.