ABSTRACT
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 ‘history and manifesto’, 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|82 pages
Foundations
chapter Chapter 3|10 pages
Linguistic function and literary style: an inquiry into the language of William Golding's The Inheritors
part Two|92 pages
Developments
chapter Chapter 17|8 pages
Making the subtle difference: literature and non-literature in the classroom
part Three|113 pages
New directions
chapter Chapter 18|10 pages
Educating the reader: narrative technique and evaluation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland
chapter Chapter 19|11 pages
Satirical humour and cultural context: with a note on the curious case of Father Todd Unctuous
chapter Chapter 22|11 pages
Point of view in drama: a socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle
chapter Chapter 24|11 pages
'Split selves' in fiction and in medical 'life stories': cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice
chapter Chapter 25|13 pages
'Too much blague?': an exploration of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme's Snow White
part Four|14 pages
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