Language in Literature

Author: Roman Jakobson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674510289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560

Book Description
Essays discuss realism, futurism, Dada, the grammar of poetry, Baudelaire, Shakespeare, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, Blake, and semiotic theory.

Language and Literature (general)

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Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Language, Truth, and Literature

Author: Richard Gaskin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199657904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395

Book Description
Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.

Language in Literature

Author: Geoffrey Leech
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317899938
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the ‘mystery’ of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. Leech sets the concept of ‘foregrounding’ (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the ‘flight from the text’ that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence. The book provides an enlightening analysis of well-known (as well as less well-known) texts of great writers of the past, including Keats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf.

The Language of Literature

Author: Marcello Giovanelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108402216
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
Essential study guides for the future linguist. The Language of Literature is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind stylistics. It is suitable for advanced level students and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge English Corpus, it provides students with an introduction to stylistics with texts from different genres. It takes the approach that the best way to study literary texts is to focus closely on language. Using short activities to help explain analysis methods, this book guides students through major modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.

Teaching Language and Literature On and Off-Canon

Author: Correoso-Rodenas, José Manuel
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 179983381X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Language and literature teaching are a keystone in the age of STEM, especially when dealing with minority communities. Practical methodologies for language learning are essential for bridging the cultural gap. Teaching Language and Literature On and Off-Canon is a critical research publication that provides a multidisciplinary, multimodal, and heterogenous perspectives on the applications of language learning and teaching practices for commonly studied languages, such as Spanish, English, and French, and less-studied languages, such as Latin, Gaelic, and ancient Semitic languages. Highlighting topics such as language acquisition, artistic literature, and minority languages, this book is essential for language teachers, linguists, academicians, curriculum designers, policymakers, administrators, researchers, and students.

The Language of Literature

Author: Rutger Jakob Allan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004156542
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
A collection of papers revealing the boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts.

The Language of Literature

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ISBN: 9780618170357
Category : Language arts (Secondary)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Body Language in Literature

Author: Barbara Korte
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802076564
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language.

Literature, Language, and Politics

Author: Betty Jean Craige
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820338079
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Literature, Language, and Politics brings together papers drawn from and inspired by the controversial, landmark symposium on “Politics and the Discipline” held at the 1987 Modern Language Association meeting in San Francisco. During the 1980s, debates raged both within and outside academe over curriculum, with conservatives arguing for a return to an educational philosophy based on the “classics” of Western civilization and a multi-cultural coalition of liberals, leftists, and feminists seeking to preserve the diversity of educational experience fought for since the 1960s. Engaging this crucial debate, the contributors to Literature, Language, and Politics argue that the conservative educational agenda imperils not only scholarship and academic freedom but the very social well-being of the nation. They call for firm resistance to any attempts to make education conform to the social agenda of one race, one gender, one language, or one ideology; for a continuation of attempts to broaden the curriculum until it reflects the experience of women and men of all classes and all cultures. Includes essays by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gerald Graff, Annette Kolodny, Paul Lauter, Ellen Messer-Davidow, Catharine R. Stimpson, and Ana Celia Zentella.