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Stylistics and the Form/Content Dichotomy: Linguistics and the Literary Critic - Couverture souple

Burchett-Vass, Gaenor

 
9783844387629: Stylistics and the Form/Content Dichotomy: Linguistics and the Literary Critic
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ISBN 10 : 3844387625 ISBN 13 : 9783844387629
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Can linguistic theories and methods be useful to the literary critic? The advocates of stylistics have long thought so, and in this work the author explores the benefits of stylistics over more traditional methods of analysis. Extra levels of meaning created through foregrounded elements form the basis of the discussion of Peake’s Gormenghast and Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and the author returns to Brontë’s novel in the final chapter to consider how the use of literary allusion helps the reader to create meaning. Pratchett’s use of free indirect discourse in Going Postal is explored through linguistic theories of conversational management and Paul Simpson’s transitivity and modality frameworks shed light on fictional point of view in Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper. The author also asks whether or not form and content are inseparable in a literary text through questioning the existence of an exclusively ‘literary’ language and discussing past attempts to isolate the paraphrasable element of a given utterance. This book will be of interest to all lovers of literature who are keen to read criticism that engages first and foremost with the language of the text.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Can linguistic theories and methods be useful to the literary critic? The advocates of stylistics have long thought so, and in this work the author explores the benefits of stylistics over more traditional methods of analysis. Extra levels of meaning created through foregrounded elements form the basis of the discussion of Peake’s Gormenghast and Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and the author returns to Brontë’s novel in the final chapter to consider how the use of literary allusion helps the reader to create meaning. Pratchett’s use of free indirect discourse in Going Postal is explored through linguistic theories of conversational management and Paul Simpson’s transitivity and modality frameworks shed light on fictional point of view in Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper. The author also asks whether or not form and content are inseparable in a literary text through questioning the existence of an exclusively ‘literary’ language and discussing past attempts to isolate the paraphrasable element of a given utterance. This book will be of interest to all lovers of literature who are keen to read criticism that engages first and foremost with the language of the text.

Biographie de l'auteur

Gaenor Burchett-Vass studied English at King's College London and the University of Auckland. She has taught English in secondary schools in England, France and New Zealand and now works in university administration.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3844387625
ISBN 13 
9783844387629
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
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