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Literary Analysis and Linguistics

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2017
Schmidt, Erich (Verlag)
978-3-503-17186-6 (ISBN)

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Literary Analysis and Linguistics - Ekkehard König, Manfred Pfister
CHF 27,90 inkl. MwSt
Our book aims at readers who want to learn more about how language works both in everyday ordinary verbal communication and in memorable works of verbal art and how the principles of ordinary communication interact with artistic creativity. The two interests are interdependent. After all, poems, though made of ideas, sensations or emotions, are first and foremost made of words and sentences, objects of fascination for linguists as well as poets and their readers. And it is only against the background of an awareness of the rules governing ordinary language that we will be able to appreciate and describe the pleasurable liberties poetic language takes with them.
This book thus aims at providing pleasurable insights into verbal art in its rich diversity of periods and genres, ranging from Shakespearean plays to modern and postmodern narratives, from lyrical poetry to pop-songs and commercials. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And the proof of linguistic theories for literary studies in our hands-on analyses is in the reading, in the heuristic surplus value these theories generate when confronted with great literature, with language taken to the limits of its complexity and density, suggestive power and memorable beauty.
Our book aims at readers who want to learn more about how language works both in everyday ordinary verbal communication and in memorable works of verbal art and how the principles of ordinary communication interact with artistic creativity. The two interests are interdependent. After all, poems, though made of ideas, sensations or emotions, are first and foremost made of words and sentences, objects of fascination for linguists as well as poets and their readers. And it is only against the background of an awareness of the rules governing ordinary language that we will be able to appreciate and describe the pleasurable liberties poetic language takes with them.

This book thus aims at providing pleasurable insights into verbal art in its rich diversity of periods and genres, ranging from Shakespearean plays to modern and postmodern narratives, from lyrical poetry to pop-songs and commercials. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And the proof of linguistic theories for literary studies in our hands-on analyses is in the reading, in the heuristic surplus value these theories generate when confronted with great literature, with language taken to the limits of its complexity and density, suggestive power and memorable beauty.

Manfred Pfister ist Professor für Englische Literaturwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin. Er hat sich vor allem mit seinem Standardwerk zur Dramentheorie einen Namen gemacht. Weitere Schwerpunkte seiner Arbeit sind die Theorie der Intertextualität und die Erforschung interkultureller Gattungen, insbesondere des Reiseberichts und der Übersetzung. Er hat u.a. Bücher zu William Shakespeare, Laurence Sterne und Oscar Wilde veröffentlicht und war Mitherausgeber einer englischen Literaturgeschichte.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; 42
Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; 42
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache deutsch
Maße 144 x 210 mm
Gewicht 329 g
Einbandart kartoniert
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Schlagworte Analysis • Anglistik • Anglistik und Amerikanistik • Deixis • Linguistics • Linguistik • Linguistik (Englisch) • literarische Analyse • Literary Theory • Literatur • Literature • Phonologie • Semantik • Sprache • Sprechakt • Syntax • Textanalyse • Theorie
ISBN-10 3-503-17186-X / 350317186X
ISBN-13 978-3-503-17186-6 / 9783503171866
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