The Subtle Subtext: Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life - Couverture souple

Pernot, Laurent

 
9780271092171: The Subtle Subtext: Hidden Meanings in Literature and Life
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0271092173 ISBN 13 : 9780271092171
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this subterranean dimension of communication.

In this book, renowned classicist and scholar of rhetoric Laurent Pernot explores the fascinating world of subtext. Of the two meanings present in any instance of double meaning, Pernot focuses on the meaning that is unstated--the meaning that counts. He analyzes subtext in all its multifarious forms, including allusion, allegory, insinuation, figured speech, irony, innuendo, esoteric teaching, reading between the lines, ambiguity, and beyond. Drawing on examples from figures as varied as Homer, Shakespeare, Molière, Proust, Foucault, and others, as well as from popular culture, Pernot shows how subtext can be identified and deciphered as well as how prevalent and essential it is in human life.

With erudition and wit, Pernot explains and clarifies a device of language that we use and understand every day without even realizing it. The Subtle Subtext is a book for anyone who is interested in language, literature, hidden meanings, and the finer points of social relations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Laurent Pernot is Member of the Institut de France and Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Strasbourg. He is the author of numerous books in his field, including Rhetoric in Antiquity; Alexandre le Grand: Les risques du pouvoir;and Epideictic Rhetoric: Questioning the Stakes of Ancient Praise. He is also the editor of New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271092173
ISBN 13 
9780271092171
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021
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