Ronald Carter / Peter Stockwell (eds.)

The Language and Literature Reader

Herausgeber: Carter, Ronald; Stockwell, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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The Language and Literature Reader is the first collection in over a decade to address the study of the linguistic foundations and components of literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 183mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780415410021
• ISBN-10: 0415410029
• Artikelnr.: 23011234

Autorenporträt

< Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham. He has written and edited more than 50 books in the fields of literary-linguistics, language and education, applied linguistics and the teaching of English. He has taught and lectured in over thirty countries world-wide and published over 100 academic papers. Recent and forthcoming books include: Exploring Grammar in Context (with Rebecca Hughes and Michael McCarthy) (CUP, 2000); The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ed with David Nunan) (CUP, 2001); second editions of Working with Texts and (with John McRae) The Routledge History of Literature in English (Routledge, 2001) and The Routledge Guide to Modern Writing (2003). Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk (Routledge) was published in 2004 and forthcoming in 2005 is The Cambridge Grammar of English (with Michael McCarthy). Professor Carter is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a fellow of the British Academy for Social Sciences and is currently chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (2003-2006). >

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 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'
Michael Haliday. 'On the Deviance of Literary Discourse' Henry Widdowson.
'Applying Linguistics' Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt.
'Linguistic Criticism' Roger Fowler. 'Metre' Geoffrey Leech. 'Discourse
Analysis and Drama' Mick Short. Part 2: Developments 'Poem, Reader,
Response: Making Sense with 'Skunk Hour' Michael Toolan. 'Style and
Interpretation in Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain"' Ron 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. Part 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 Gibbs. 'Point of View in
Drama: An Analysis of 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'' Catherine Emmott.
'Too Much Blague? The Text Worlds of 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. Part 4: Coda 'Stylistics: Retrospect and Prospect' Peter
Stockwell and Ron Carter. Index

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Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 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' Michael Haliday. 'On the Deviance of Literary Discourse' Henry Widdowson. 'Applying Linguistics' Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt. 'Linguistic Criticism' Roger Fowler. 'Metre' Geoffrey Leech. 'Discourse Analysis and Drama' Mick Short. Part 2: Developments 'Poem, Reader, Response: Making Sense with 'Skunk Hour' Michael Toolan. 'Style and Interpretation in Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain"' Ron 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. Part 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 Gibbs. 'Point of View in Drama: An Analysis of 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'' Catherine Emmott. 'Too Much Blague? The Text Worlds of 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. Part 4: Coda 'Stylistics: Retrospect and Prospect' Peter Stockwell and Ron Carter. Index