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This paper introduces a new type of reported discourse, the paraliptic summary (résumé paraliptique), where the narrator explicitly refuses to repeat what the character has said. The paraliptic summary is a subtype of what Leech and Short (1981) call a narrative report of a speech act and Genette (1972) terms discours narrativisé, and it seems to be related to the rhetorical figure paralipsis (occultatio, occupatio etc.). The paper studies Henry Fielding's use of the paraliptic summary in his novels Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia. After a brief terminological introduction, the article discusses the various related rhetorical devices, the possible models that Fielding may have had for this device (the classics, Shakespeare, Marivaux), and finally analyzes 26 examples from Fielding.
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Taivalkoski-Shilov, K. "Chut!" Du discours non rapporté dans les romans de Henry Fielding. Neophilologus 86, 337–352 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015618319343
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