Language in Literature - Style and Foregrounding (Paperback, New)

Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the 'mystery' of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. Leech sets the concept of 'foregrounding' (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the 'flight from the text' that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence. The book provides an enlightening analysis of well-known (as well as less well-known) texts of great writers of the past, including Keats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf.

General

Imprint:	Longman
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Textual Explorations
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Geoffrey Leech
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	234
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-582-05109-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
LSN:	0-582-05109-6
Barcode:	9780582051096

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