Interface: Language in Literary Studies
About the Book Series
`A linguist deaf to the poetic function of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistic problems and unconversant with linguistic methods, are equally flagrant anachronisms.' - Roman Jakobson
This statement, made over twenty-five years ago, is no less relevant today, and `flagrant anachronisms' still abound. Routledge, working in conjunction with the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and its chair, Ronald Carter, has developed the Interface series to examine topics at the `interface' of language studies and literary criticism, and in so doing, to build bridges between these traditionally divided disciplines.
`Literary linguistics is a firmly established interdisciplinary field ... The Interface series offers students and teachers a rich range of new and revealing perspectives on both traditional and contemporary literary topics.' - Roger Fowler, University of East Anglia
`On the planes of theory, description and classroom practice this series will do much to support and enhance work at the interface of language and literature.' - M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney University
Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction
2nd Edition
By Michael J Toolan
August 24, 2001
Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their tellers, and those to whom they are addressed. Topics examined include plot structure, time manipulations, point of...
Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Culpeper, Mick Short, Peter Verdonk
June 26, 1998
Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays. ...
Patterns in Language: Stylistics for Students of Language and Literature
1st Edition
By Joanna Thornborrow, Shân Wareing
March 26, 1998
Patterns in Language addresses the real needs of students in modular systems who may not have a background either in traditional literature or in linguistic theory.This student-friendly textbook uses the principles of linguistic analysis to investigate the aesthetic use of language in literary (and...
Language Through Literature: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Paul Simpson
December 24, 1996
Paul Simpson provides a definitive introduction to the English language through the medium of English Literature. Through the use of illustrations from poetry, prose and drama, this book offers a lively and accessible guide to important concepts and techniques in English language study.Each chapter...
English in Speech and Writing: Investigating Language and Literature
1st Edition
By Rebecca Hughes
October 31, 1996
In this activity-based text, Rebecca Hughes invites the reader to examine the differences between spoken and written English.Instead of presenting a bewildering array of 'facts' about variety in English, she encourages the reader to actively investigate the differences between these two modes of ...
Variety in Written English: Texts in Society/Societies in Text
1st Edition
By Tony Bex
October 02, 1996
Combining insight from a variety of linguistic perspectives including Hallidayan functional linguistics and relevance theory, Tony Bex demonstrates how written texts operate within society to convey meaning. This book:- * looks at a wide variety of written genres - advertisments, letters, poetry ...
Twentieth-Century Fiction: From Text to Context
1st Edition
By Peter Verdonk, Jean Jacques Weber
October 24, 1995
By applying recent trends in literary and language theory to a range of 20th Century fiction, the contributors to this text make new theoretical insights available to student readers. The analytical and interpretive strategies examined in this book are not intended to be prescriptive, rather they ...
Feminist Stylistics
1st Edition
By Sara Mills
July 31, 1995
This lively and accessible book is the first sustained account of feminist stylistics. Mills explores such issues as sexism, political correctness, reader positioning and meaning, opening up the study of style to feminist inquiry....
Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies
1st Edition
By Rob Pope
December 19, 1994
This user-friendly yet challenging text provides a genuinely interactive strategy for successful textual intervention. Thoroughly dialogic in approach, it draws on a combination of discourse analysis, critical theory and creative writing....
A Linguistic History of English Poetry
1st Edition
By Richard Bradford
November 15, 1993
This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts. Richard Bradford provides detailed readings of individual texts ...
Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Text to Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Verdonk
November 15, 1993
This textbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to the practice of literary stylistics. It is based on extensive teaching experience, and makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary ...
Language, Ideology and Point of View
1st Edition
By Paul Simpson
June 25, 1993
This systematic introduction to the concept of point of view in language explores the ways in which point of view intersects with and is shaped by ideology. It specifically focuses on the way in which speakers and writers linguistically encode their beliefs, interests and biases in a wide range of ...