Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works
Dostoevskii’s narrators play a key role in creating a sense of ambiguity and uncertainty in his texts that has been associated stylistically with the presence of ‘as if’ phrases. This article uses concordances to identify and examine patterns of usage of ‘as if’ that indicate a shift to an unreal co...
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| Language: | Catalan |
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Liverpool University Press
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Modern Languages Open |
| Online Access: | https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/183 |