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The work of a master critic, this book draws on speech act theory, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in Henry James's fiction. The author shows that three modes of speech act occur in James's novels and the action of each work is brought about by its own idiosyncratic repertoire.Miller, J. Hillis is the author of 'Literature As Conduct Speech Acts in Henry James', published 2005 under ISBN 9780823225378 and ISBN 0823225372.
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