Language in Literature
Title | Language in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Roman Jakobson |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780674510289 |
Essays discuss realism, futurism, Dada, the grammar of poetry, Baudelaire, Shakespeare, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, Blake, and semiotic theory.
The Languages of Literature
Title | The Languages of Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Fowler |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2016-08-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134864248 |
In The Language of Literature, first published in 1971, Roger Fowler argues that the vitality and centrality of the verbal dimension of literature, and, read as a whole, the papers in this collection imply a consistent point of view on language in literature. The author focuses on the continuity of language in literature with language outside literature, on its cultural appropriateness and adjustment, and on its power to create aesthetic patterns and to organise concepts, to make fictions. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.
Language and Literature (general)
Title | Language and Literature (general) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1831 |
Genre | |
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The Language of Literature
Title | The Language of Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Rutger Jakob Allan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004156542 |
A collection of papers revealing the boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts.
The Languages of World Literature
Title | The Languages of World Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Achim Hölter |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 685 |
Release | 2024-01-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3110641925 |
An Introduction to the Language of Literature
Title | An Introduction to the Language of Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Francis Blake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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The aim of this book is to explain style in terms which do not presuppose too extensive an acquaintaince on the part of the reader with linguistic terminology. Its orientation is not basically theoretical. It attempts to provide help in a pragmatic way for those who recognize the importance of language in literature, but who do not know where to start or how to exploit the particular knowledge and skills the possess.
Language in Literature
Title | Language in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Leech |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2014-07-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1317899938 |
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.