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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gibbons, Alison
• Whiteley, Sara

Titel

Contemporary Stylistics : Language, Cognition, Interpretation

Ist Teil von

• Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAA

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become ‘lost in a book’ or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, Contemporary Stylistics provides readers with the tools to begin answering these questions. In doing so, it introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts.-
• Including innovative activities for students and with case studies of work by writers like Dylan Thomas, EL James and Kazuo Ishiguro, this is a detailed analysis of contemporary stylistics that offers both historical contextualization of the discipline and points towards its possible future direction.Key Features:Introduces the key terms for each contemporary stylistic frameworkOutlines the foundations of the discipline and addresses cutting-edge developments such as reader response research, corpus methods, multimodality and reader emotion Contains practical analyses, innovative exercises for students, and further reading suggestions in each chapterAddresses the recent attention to multimodal and digital literature and research into empiricism and emotionEach topic is explored through original analyses of a wide range of texts, including poetry, prose, dialogue, song lyrics, political discourse,-
• and linguistic transcriptsThere are stylistic and cognitive poetic analyses through the book. The key case studies include:The Canal – Lee Rourke (2010)‘Zang Tumb Tumb’ by Marinetti (1914)‘River in Spate’ by Louis MacNeiceUnder Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (1954)‘Space Sonnet & Polyfilla’ by Edwin Morgan (1977)‘In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden’ by Matthea Harvey (2000)House of CardsWhat is the What by Dave Eggers (2006)Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke (2002)Fresh MeatFifty Shades of Grey by E. L.-