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Title Language, discourse, and literature : an introductory reader in discourse stylistics / edited by Ronald Carter and Paul Simpson
Published London ; New York : Routledge, [1995], ©1989

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Contents Analysing Conversation in Fiction: an Example from Joyce's Portrait; Subject Construction as Stylistic Strategy in Gerard Manley Hopkins; Metre and Discourse; 'Working Effects with Words' -- Whose Words?: Stylistics and Reader Intertextuality; Glossary; Index
Summary This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide range of texts by mainly British and American writers, from a variety of different periods, the contributors show how discourse stylistics can provide models for the systematic description of, for example, dialogue in fiction; language of drama and balladic poetry; speech presentation; the interactive properties of metre; the communicative context of author/reader. Among the texts examined are novels, poetry and drama by major twentieth-century
Analysis English language Discourse Analysis
Notes Originally published 1989 by Unwin Hyman Ltd. Reprinted 1995 by Routledge
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject English literature -- History and criticism.
Discourse analysis, Literary
literary criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Discourse analysis, Literary
English literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Carter, Ronald, 1947-2018
Simpson, Paul, 1959-
ISBN 0203108787
9780203108789
9786610064892
661006489X
0415119537
9780415119535