Patricia Canning

Style in the Renaissance (eBook, PDF)

Language and Ideology in Early Modern England

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In a book which brings together language, text and context, Patricia Canning synthesizes models of contemporary stylistics with both critical and literary-historical theory. In doing so, the author maintains a specific and sustained stylistic focus on the religious, political and ideological issues that animated and defined Reformation England. Each chapter interrogates the dichotomous concept of 'word' and 'image' by considering the ways in which writers of this period deal with these contentious subjects in their dramatic and poetic works.'Representation', Canning argues, 'is not just as a matter of semiotics but of ideology'. Whereas stylistics enjoys extensive application in the analysis of contemporary texts, it has, until now, been markedly under-used in the exploration of the historical literary genre. Addressing this shortcoming squarely and robustly, Canning's book is a showcase for the stylistic method. Among its many insights, this book shows how stylistics can enrich our understanding and critical interpretation of a particular literary genre in its ideological and historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441183811
• Artikelnr.: 39918013

Autorenporträt

Patricia Canning is a Teaching Assistant at the School of English, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founder of read.live.learn., she is currently developing a reading for wellbeing project ('Reading For Life') across Northern Ireland. She runs projects in the university as well as with female prisoners in Hydebank Prison, Belfast.