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Utilizing recent trends in literary and language theory, "Twentieth
Century Fiction: From Text to Context" makes new theoretical
insights available to its audience. Contributors to this volume
employ analytical and interpretive strategies which are not
intended to be prescriptive, but rather are presented in such a way
as to facilitate critical reading and evaluation.
The collection's essays, which are arranged into three groups
focusing on the textual level, narrative and context, explore a
number of 20th century authors including Fowles, Foster, Lessing
and Woolf. In addition, this user-friendly text includes a detailed
subject index, a full glossary and helpful suggestions for further
reading.
Designed not only for native English speakers, but also for those
who read English as a foreign or second language, "Twentieth
Century Fiction: From Text to Context" provides an indispensable
introduction which is both sensitive and enabling.
By applying recent trends in literary and language theory to a range of 20th Century fiction, the contributors to this text make new theoretical insights available to student readers. The analytical and interpretive strategies examined in this book are not intended to be prescriptive, rather they are presented in such a way as to facilitate critical reading and evaluation. The essays, which are arranged into three groups and which focus on the textual level, narrative and context, look at a wide range of Twentieth Century authors including Fowles, Foster, Lessing and Woolf. In addition, this student-friendly text includes a detailed subject index, a full glossary and helpful suggestions for further reading. Aimed at beginning students of English Language and Literature and Applied Linguistics, and advanced students of English as a Foreign or Second Language, 20th Century Fiction provides an essential introduction to the subject which is both sensitive and enabling.
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Stylistics, in parallel with similar trends in language studies and
literary theory, has widened its scope of investigation from a
close reading of texts to considering texts in context. This
broadening out has considerably increased the literary critical
potential for stylistics. This book makes new insights from
linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their
daily practice of reading, analyzing and evaluating literary texts.
The 12 chapters are written by experts in the field. They provide a
firm foundation for the development of language and context-based
literary criticism, allowing students to increase their creative
responsiveness to the interplay between text and context, and
between language and social situation.
Stylistics, in parallel with similar trends in language studies and
literary theory, has widened its scope of investigation from a
close reading of texts to considering texts in context. This
broadening out has considerably increased the literary critical
potential for stylistics. This book makes new insights from
linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their
daily practice of reading, analyzing and evaluating literary texts.
The 12 chapters are written by experts in the field. They provide a
firm foundation for the development of language and context-based
literary criticism, allowing students to increase their creative
responsiveness to the interplay between text and context, and
between language and social situation.
Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor
Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry
clearly shows that the stylistics of poetic discourse is a diverse
and valuable interdiscipline. Discussing the poetry of Auden,
Heaney and Larkin amongst many others, Verdonk covers everything
from intrinsic textual meaning and external context in its widest
sense to the reader's cognitive and emotive response to poems. The
book will appeal to all students on stylistics and literary
linguistics courses, especially those focussing on poetry and
poetic language.
Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the
stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible
style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis,
particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and
pragmatics, to explore the language of plays.
The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of
a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four
broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters:
* open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how
they are used in dramatic dialogue
* look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used
to help us understand characterization in dialogue
* consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic
discourse
* focus on the notion of speech as action.
there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play
and write up an assignment.
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