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The language and literature reader / edited by Ronald Carter, Peter Stockwell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2008Description: xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415410037
  • 9780415410038
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 801.95 LAN 22
Contents:
pt. 1. Foundations: Taking a poem to pieces / John Sinclair -- Stylistics / David Lodge -- Linguistic function and literary style : an inquiry into the language of William Golding's The inheritors / M.A.K. Halliday -- On the deviance of literary discourse / Henry Widdowson -- Language, linguistics and literary analysis / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt -- Linguistic criticism / Roger Fowler -- Metre / Geoffrey Leech -- Discourse analysis and drama / Mick Short -- Pt. 2. Developments: Poem, reader, response : making sense with Skunk hour / Michael Toolan -- Style and interpretation in Hemingway's 'Cat in the rain' / Ronald Carter -- Changing the guard at Elsinore / Walter Nash -- But what is literature? : toward a descriptive definition of literature / Willie van Peer -- Deixis and the poetic persona / Keith Green -- Bakhtin, addressivity, and the poetics of objectivity / Alison Tate -- Teach yourself rhetoric : an analysis of Philip Larkin's Church going / Katie Wales -- World enough and time : deictic space and the interpretation of prose / Paul Werth -- Making the subtle difference : literature and non-literature in the classroom / Guy Cook -- pt. 3. New directions: Educating the reader : narrative technique and evaluation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland / Jean Jacques Weber -- Satirical humour and cultural context : with a note on the curious case of Father Todd Unctuous / Paul Simpson -- (Sur)real stylistics : from text to contextualizing / Peter Stockwell -- Feeling moved by metaphor / Ray W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Point of view in drama : a socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and treacle / Dan McIntyre -- Conrad in the computer : examples of quantitative stylistic methods / Michael Stubbs -- 'Split selves' in fiction and in medical 'life stories' : cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice / Catherine Emmott -- Too much blague? : an explanation of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme's Snow White / Joanna Gavins -- A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction / Elena Semino -- Connectives in free indirect style : continuity or shift? / Violeta Sotirova -- pt. 4. CODA: Stylistics : retrospect and prospect / Ronald Carter and Peter Stockwell.
Summary: Intended for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. This work provides an overview of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 70s, through the theories and practices of the 1980s and 90s
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Foundations: Taking a poem to pieces / John Sinclair -- Stylistics / David Lodge -- Linguistic function and literary style : an inquiry into the language of William Golding's The inheritors / M.A.K. Halliday -- On the deviance of literary discourse / Henry Widdowson -- Language, linguistics and literary analysis / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt -- Linguistic criticism / Roger Fowler -- Metre / Geoffrey Leech -- Discourse analysis and drama / Mick Short -- Pt. 2. Developments: Poem, reader, response : making sense with Skunk hour / Michael Toolan -- Style and interpretation in Hemingway's 'Cat in the rain' / Ronald Carter -- Changing the guard at Elsinore / Walter Nash -- But what is literature? : toward a descriptive definition of literature / Willie van Peer -- Deixis and the poetic persona / Keith Green -- Bakhtin, addressivity, and the poetics of objectivity / Alison Tate -- Teach yourself rhetoric : an analysis of Philip Larkin's Church going / Katie Wales -- World enough and time : deictic space and the interpretation of prose / Paul Werth -- Making the subtle difference : literature and non-literature in the classroom / Guy Cook -- pt. 3. New directions: Educating the reader : narrative technique and evaluation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland / Jean Jacques Weber -- Satirical humour and cultural context : with a note on the curious case of Father Todd Unctuous / Paul Simpson -- (Sur)real stylistics : from text to contextualizing / Peter Stockwell -- Feeling moved by metaphor / Ray W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Point of view in drama : a socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and treacle / Dan McIntyre -- Conrad in the computer : examples of quantitative stylistic methods / Michael Stubbs -- 'Split selves' in fiction and in medical 'life stories' : cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice / Catherine Emmott -- Too much blague? : an explanation of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme's Snow White / Joanna Gavins -- A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction / Elena Semino -- Connectives in free indirect style : continuity or shift? / Violeta Sotirova -- pt. 4. CODA: Stylistics : retrospect and prospect / Ronald Carter and Peter Stockwell.

Intended for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. This work provides an overview of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 70s, through the theories and practices of the 1980s and 90s

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