Valerie Shepard

Literature About Language (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Literature About Language Valerie Shepherd brings together linguistic theory and literary criticism and examines languages as a theme in a range of literary texts. By looking at the work of writers such as Swift, Joyce and Sontag she discusses the power of story-telling and metaphor to shape our thinking and examines the communicative capacities of non-standard English and the strengths of women's writing in a male language world. By turning to the work of writers such as Hardy, Cummings, Lodge and Gordimer, however, she also demonstrates the ways in which language can be constrained by its users and by social and cultural pressures.
Written specifically for a student audience, Language About Literature presumes no prior knowledge of linguistic theory and each chapter concludes with a set of practical exercises.
An invaluable text for A-level and undergraduate students of language, literature and communication studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134913404
• Artikelnr.: 42822111

Autorenporträt

Valerie Shepard

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Literature about language 1 The human capacity for language
The Inheritors by William Golding 2 Linguistic creativity and limitation
'my sweet old etcetera' by e.e. cummings 3 Sound and meaning 'The upper
birch-leaves' by Thomas Hardy 4 Making meaning Susan Sontag's essay 'AIDS
and its metaphors' and Eva Salzman's poem 'Time out' 5 The narrative art of
language Poetry by Elizabeth Jennings and the short story 'Eveline' from
James Joyce's Dubliners 6 Standard and Non-standard English The Dorset
poetry of William Barnes, with reference to Tennyson's Lincolnshire
monologues and Tom Leonard's Glasgow poems 7 The language of women and men
'Nervous prostration' by Anna Wickham with particular reference to Jonathan
Swift's 'The furniture of a woman's mind' 8 The power of discourse David
Lodge's novel Nice Work and poetry by Tom Leonard 9 The signalling of
meaning