Joe Bray
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joe Bray is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 5: Vignette. Non-events in stylistics: An analysis of a passage from Zadie Smith’s NW Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 61–69 | Chapter
Drawing on and expanding Simpson and Canning’s (2014) analysis of ‘action and event as well as inaction and non-event’ (p. 299) in Joseph Conrad’s novel Chance (1913), Joe Bray analyses an event which can be assumed to be taking place but which is represented obliquely in NW (2012) by Zadie… read more
2016 Chapter 6. The first person in fiction of the 1790s Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 111–128 | Article
This article will examine the complexities of first-person narrative in late
eighteenth and early nineteenth-century fiction. Taking as its starting-point
Sylvia Adamson’s ground-breaking work on shifts of point of view in Puritan
narratives (see Adamson 1995), it shows that the Romantic period… read more