Language and Verbal Art Revisited: Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature

by Donna R. Miller

Book Overview

PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED JULY 2010

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 pass and their translations by Angela Carter; the Spanish poets of the Generaci n 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845530942
• ISBN13: 9781845530945
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher