Analysis of literary discourse
In 1.7 we spent some time looking at the language of a short poem. Now we shall examine a passage of prose, to show in more detail how grammar can contribute to the study of literature. We shall in fact refer to three extracts from novels in this chapter. The first, from D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow, will be the main subject of study, and the second passage, from Dickens’s Bleak House, will be used for further illustration. The Dickens passage and a further passage, from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, will provide material for the exercises at the end of the chapter. The three passages are given on pp. 166-70.