
Language and Verbal Art Revisited
Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature
Equinox Publishing Ltd
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. April 2007
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-1-84553-094-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume, meant for both specialists and non-specialists, will appeal to both the growing number of scholars working in, and students needing to investigate, the field of literary linguistics, or stylistics. Inspired by Ruqaiya Hasan's conviction that, [.] in verbal art the role of language is central. Here language is not as clothing to the body; it IS the body." (1985/1989: 91), the papers are on a wide variety of aspects of the language-literature connection, and approach it from diverse perspectives and methodological frameworks, including Systemic Functional Linguistics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, ethnolinguistics, cultural and translation studies. A wide range of literary genres and world literatures are analyzed, including Shakespeare's plays; modern Austrian authors writing in German (e.g., Thomas Bernhard); Perrault's "Histoires et contes du temps passe" and their translations by Angela Carter; the Spanish poets of the Generacion del '50; Malaysian-Singaporean poets in English; Anglo-American Modernist poets (Frost, Stevens, Pound and Lawrence) and novelists (Woolf and Conrad); a short story by Marina Warner and Turkish-German narrative by Feridun Zamo lu; "The Gospel of St. John" and "Harry Potter". Separate introductions to each of the contributions seek to guide above all the non-specialist reader by describing and comparing the frameworks that the volume comprises. A general introduction diachronically traces key moments in the development of the study of the language of literature seen as socio-cultural practice.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-094-5 (9781845530945)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
both University of Bologna
Content
Introduction 1. Ruqaiya Hasan Private pleasure, public discourse: Reflections in engaging with literature 2. Donna R. Miller Construing the 'primitive' primitively: grammatical parallelism as patterning and positioning strategy in D.H. Lawrence 3. David G. Butt Thought Experiments in Verbal Art: Examples from Modernism 4. Monica Turci The meaning of 'dark' in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 5. Carol Taylor Torsello Projection in literary and in non-literary texts 6. Bill Louw Collocation as the determinant of Verbal Art 7. Jean Michel Adam & Ute Heidmann Text linguistics and Comparative literature: Towards an interdisciplinary approach to written tales: Angela Carter's translations of Perrault 8. Mirella Agorni Translation teaching and methodology: A linguistic analysis of a literary text 9. Anne Betten Deconstructing standard syntax: Tendencies in modern German prose writing 10. Sandro M. Moraldo Kanak sprak: The linguistic features of Turkish migrants' communicative style in Feridun Zaimo lu's works 11. Maria Jose Rodrigo Mora Debating the function of language in poetry: Meta-textual musings in the Spanish 50s generation