Martin J. Gliserman

Graphic Criticism (eBook, ePUB)

Semantics, Neurology and Cultural Transmission-A Study of 100 Classic Anglophone Novels

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Produktbeschreibung

Graphic Criticism analyzes the semantic families of one hundred Anglophone novels written between 1719 and 1997. The analysis demonstrates that these novels embed a code for semantic distribution, and that code is the way that cultural values are transmitted. The longitudinal aspect of the analysis illuminates what T.S. Eliot called "tradition." Graphic Criticism also zooms in on the particulars of a variety of the corpus texts to reveal Eliot's "individual talent." Thus while the corpus indicates that the proportion of any semantic feature is consistent across time, each writer creatively works and plays with that feature in his or her own style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433182761
• Artikelnr.: 65997305

Autorenporträt

Martin J. Gliserman has a Ph.D. in literature and language from Indiana University and is a certified Psychoanalyst graduated from the Center for Modern Psychoanalysis in New York City. He has been a professor at Rutgers University (New Brunswick) since 1971 and a practicing psychoanalyst since 1996. He was the Editor in Chief of American Imago from 1987 to 2002. His first book, Psychoanalysis, Language and the Body of the Text (1996), was a study of the psychoanalytic dynamics of syntax in a variety of novels

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures - Preface: Bio-Bibliography - Acknowledgments - Introduction: Semantic Webs: From Data to Network in Kate Chopin's The Awakening - Beginning with Beloved - The Named Body of One Hundred Novels, 1719-1997 - The "Compleat" Semantic World of Robinson Crusoe - The Semantic World of One Hundred Novels: Evidence and Cases - BROKE and NOSE in The Great Gatsby: White Male Rage - The Heart of Beloved and Ninety-Nine Other Novels - Skin and Trauma - Windows in Passing: What Goes Out the Window, Not Who - Audible Man-Voice in Invisible Man - CODA - Bibliography - Index.

Rezensionen

"Graphic Criticism offers a highly original angle on fiction. Applying the data mining and concordancing tools of corpus linguistics to one hundred Anglophone novels published between the early eighteenth and late twentieth century, Martin Gliserman uncovers the semantic networks that structure these texts underneath overt form-giving features such as syntax and plot. The visualisations of his findings in charts and mind maps provide a panoramic view on the larger cultural trends that can be deduced from the presence and distribution of prominent words in literary texts and enable focused micro readings documenting the semantic patterns that make up the unique identity of these sources. His findings shed light not only on the nature of the texts investigated (their 'semantic unconscious), and hence on their authors' distinctive styles, but also on the cognitive expectations these novels have of readers, providing a compelling and illuminating reminder that neither formalism nor structuralism have lost their heuristic relevance for the study of literature in the twenty-first century." -Anja Müller-Wood, University Professor, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Editor, International Journal of Literary Linguistics