Contemporary Stylistics : Language, Cognition, Interpretation EPUB

by Alison Gibbons, Sara Whiteley

Part of the Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced series

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How do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become 'lost in a book' or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Interpretation, Cognition provides readers with the tools to begin answering these questions. In doing so, it introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts. Including innovative activities for students and with case studies of work by writers like Dylan Thomas, EL James and Kazuo Ishiguro, this is a detailed analysis of contemporary stylistics that offers both historical contextualization of the discipline and points towards its possible future direction.

Key Features:

Introduces the key terms for each contemporary stylistic framework
Outlines the foundations of the discipline and addresses cutting-edge developments such as reader response research, corpus methods, multimodality and reader emotion
Contains practical analyses, innovative exercises for students, and further reading suggestions in each chapter
Addresses the recent attention to multimodal and digital literature and research into empiricism and emotion
Each topic is explored through original analyses of a wide range of texts, including poetry, prose, dialogue, song lyrics, political discourse, and linguistic transcripts

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Pages:392 pages
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date:01/02/2018
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ISBN:9780748682805

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