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The Language and Literature Reader is the first collection in over a decade to address the study of the linguistic foundations and components of literature. Encompassing essays by key thinkers in linguistics such as Katie Wales, Michael Toolan, and Paul Simpson, as well as major figures in literary studies such as Derek Attridge and David Lodge, the Reader is divided into three main sections:
foundations - explores the beginnings of the discipline of stylistics, drawing on the work of scholars in the field of both language and literary studies
developments - examines the expansion of the discipline across major literary genres as new practices and theories were developed in the 1980s and 1990s
new directions - introduces recent approaches including literary linguistic analysis of point of view, the relationship between language and literary context, and cognitive poetics.
The conclusion is a stylistics manifesto in which the editors view developments in the light of directions in linguistic and literary theory and textual analysis.
The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. Bringing together the most significant work in the field with integrated editorial material, this Reader is a structured and accessible tool for the student and scholar.
Divided into three sections, Foundations, Developments and New Directions, the Reader provides an overview of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 70s, through the new theories and practices of the 1980s and 90s, to the most recent and contemporary work in the field. Each article contains a brief introduction by the editors situating it in the context of developing work in the discipline and glossing it in terms of the section and of the book as a whole. The final section concludes with a a history and manifestoa (TM), written by the editors, which places developments in the area of stylistics within a brief history of the field and offers a polemical perspective on the future of a growing and influential discipline.ISBN - 9780415410038
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Pages : 306
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