
Linguistics Meets Literature
More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson
De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. May 2020
Book
Hardback
VIII, 254 pages
978-3-11-063880-6 (ISBN)
Description
Until recently, collaborative efforts between formal linguistics and literary studies have been relatively sparse; this book is an attempt to bridge this gap and add to the hitherto small pool of studies that combine the two disciplines.
Our study concentrates on Emily Dickinson's poetry, since it displays a highly uncommon and therefore challenging use of language. We argue this to be part of her poetic strategy and consider Dickinson an intuitive linguist: her apparent non-compliance with linguistic rules is a productive exploration of linguistic expression to reveal the flexibility and potential of grammar, leading to complex processes of interpretation. Our study includes a number of in-depth analyses of individual poems, which combine formal linguistic methods and literary scholarship and focus on specific aspects such as ambiguity, reference, and presuppositions. One of our findings concerns the dynamic interpretation of lyrical texts in which the pragmatic step of establishing what a poem means for the reader is postponed to text level.
We provide readers with a tool-box of methods for the formal linguistic analysis not just of Emily Dickinson's poetry but of linguistically complex literary texts in general.
Our study concentrates on Emily Dickinson's poetry, since it displays a highly uncommon and therefore challenging use of language. We argue this to be part of her poetic strategy and consider Dickinson an intuitive linguist: her apparent non-compliance with linguistic rules is a productive exploration of linguistic expression to reveal the flexibility and potential of grammar, leading to complex processes of interpretation. Our study includes a number of in-depth analyses of individual poems, which combine formal linguistic methods and literary scholarship and focus on specific aspects such as ambiguity, reference, and presuppositions. One of our findings concerns the dynamic interpretation of lyrical texts in which the pragmatic step of establishing what a poem means for the reader is postponed to text level.
We provide readers with a tool-box of methods for the formal linguistic analysis not just of Emily Dickinson's poetry but of linguistically complex literary texts in general.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
9 s/w Tabellen
9 b/w tbl.
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
597 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-063880-6 (9783110638806)
Schweitzer Classification
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Matthias Bauer | Sigrid Beck | Saskia Brockmann
Linguistics Meets Literature
More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson
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01/2022
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Matthias Bauer | Sigrid Beck | Saskia Brockmann
Linguistics Meets Literature
More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson
E-Book
06/2020
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
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Matthias Bauer | Sigrid Beck | Saskia Brockmann
Linguistics Meets Literature
More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson
E-Book
06/2020
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€149.95
Available for download
Persons
Matthias Bauer and Sigrid Beck , University of Tübingen, Germany.