Joanna Gavins

Reading the Absurd (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these questions. Selected key works in English literature are examined in depth to reveal significant aspects of absurd style. Its analytical approach combines stylistic inquiry with a cognitive perspective on language, literature and reading which sheds new light on the human experience of literary reading.By exploring the literary absurd as a linguistic and experiential phenomena, while at the same time reflecting upon its essential historical and cultural situation, Joanna Gavins brings a new perspective to the absurd aesthetic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748669295
• Artikelnr.: 72413759

Autorenporträt

Professor Joanna Gavins is Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, where she teaches courses in cognitive linguistics and stylistics. She is the author of Text World Theory: An Introduction (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), Reading the Absurd (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), co-editor (with Gerard Steen) of Cognitive Poetics in Practice (Routledge, 2003), and co-editor (with Ernestine Lahey) of World Building: Discourse in the Mind (Bloomsbury, 2016). She is the Director of the Text World Theory Special Collection at the University of Sheffield and Editor of the John Benjamins Linguistic Approaches to Literature book series.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 The Literary Absurd
THE ABSURD IN PHILOSOPHY
THE ABSURD IN LITERARY CRITICISM A NEW APPROACH
READERS OF THE ABSURD; 2 IDENTIFYING THE ABSURD
CATEGORIES AND CATEGORISATION
CONTEXT
COMMUNITY AND SITUATED CONCEPTS
A CLINE OF EXPERIMENTALISM
WRITING ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ABSURD
READING ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ABSURD
BUILDING ABSURD WORLDS
EXPERIMENTING WITH ABSURD WORLDS
HUMOUR AND THE ABSURD
THE LITERARY ABSURD
SO FAR; 3 ABSURD MINDS
A SINGULARLY MASCULINE PHENOMENON?
CHARACTER-BUILDING
READING OTHER PEOPLE'S MINDS
VERSIONS OF UNRELIABILITY
ESTRANGING MINDS
THE LITERARY ABSURD
SO FAR; 4 ABSURD FICTIONS
ABSURD WORLD-BUILDING REVISITED
ABSURD LANDSCAPES AND EMOTIONAL RESONANCE
TIME
SPACE
AND FICTIONALITY
MIXING GENRES
MIXING MODES
THE LITERARY ABSURD
SO FAR ; 5 ABSURD VERSES
THE STYLISTICS OF ABSURD PROSE FICTION
READING THE ABSURD IN PROSE FICTION
READING THE ABSURD IN POETRY
STYLISTIC FAMILY RESEMBLANCES ACROSS POETIC TEXTS
TOWARDS A STYLISTICS OF ABSURD POETRY
THE LITERARY ABSURD
SO FAR ; REFERENCES