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Varieties of speech presentation in the novel
Task E - Peter Jenkins interviewing the artist, David Hockney
Below is an extract from a newspaper article where the journalist, Peter
Jenkins, one of the best journalists of his generation is interviewing
the artist, David Hockney.
[Context: Hockney has just said that in their later periods many great
painters, because they were more confident, had become looser in style.]
Would it happen to Hockney? Did he have any visions of "late
Hockney"?
"I do hope to get better," was all he said.
Yes, but it was not just getting better, was it? As he had said, it
was getting looser.
"When I said that, I pointed out, I think, that late Picasso is
a kind of Cubism of the brush. Very interesting things began to happen.
People never looked at them like that because they were much too busy
looking at other things. Picasso didn't care, of course."
(Peter Jenkins, 'And Then What?', The Independent Weekend,
29 February 1992)
1. What mode of speech presentation does Jenkins
use to represent the speech of Hockney and what mode does he use to represent
himself?
2. Why does he use these two different modes?
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