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Pronouns in Literature (eBook, PDF)

Positions and Perspectives in Language

Redaktion: Gibbons, Alison; Macrae, Andrea

Beschreibung

Explores the complex functioning of pronouns as part of the linguistic nuances of perspectives and positioning in literary texts

Advances current scholarship on narrative voices and articulations of perspective

Draws out underlying themes including reader engagement, the plurality of voices and worlds, metafictionality, ambiguity and unreliability, the problematisation of subjectivity and the ethical implications of subjective relationships

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Autor

Alison Gibbons is Reader in Contemporary Stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the author of Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature (2012), co-author of Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Interpretation, Cognition (2018), and co-editor of Mark Z. Danielewski (2011), Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (2012), and Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism (2017). Andrea Macrae is Senior Lecturer in Stylistics at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She specialises in deixis and has published work on pronouns in the Journal of Literary Semantics (2010), the journal Diegesis (2016), and in The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns (2015) and Texts and Minds (2012). 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 279
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349953172
• Artikelnr.: 52936322

Rezensionen

"when going through Pronouns in Literature: Positions and Perspectives in Language, readers will find themselves on a magical tour of communicating with characters and narrators in literary texts of different times and regions. Due to the unique character and the flexible facet of pronouns in literature, this innovative volume will definitely appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, stylistics and cognitive poetics, psychology, narratology and literary criticism." (Yanli Jia, Language and Literature, August, 2018)