Stylistics and shakespeare's language : transdisciplinary approaches / editors, Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ravassat, Mireille.

Contributor:

Culpeper, Jonathan, 1966-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Advances in stylistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Literary style.

Literary style.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Technique.

Technique.

Physical Description:

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Continuum, 2011.

Summary:

This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 'Strange deliveries': Contextualizing Shakespeare's First Citations in the OED / Giles Goodland Goodland, Giles 8

Chapter 2 Shakespeare's Vocabulary: Did it Dwarf All Others? / Ward E. Y. Elliott Elliott, Ward E. Y., Robert J. Valenza Valenza, Robert J. 34

Chapter 3 A New Kind of Dictionary for Shakespeare's Plays: an Immodest Proposal / Jonathan Culpeper Culpeper, Jonathan 58

Chapter 4 'If I break time': Shakespearean Line Endings on the Page and die Stage / Peter Kanelos Kanelos, Peter 84

Chapter 5 Subject-Verb Inversion and Iambic Rhythm in Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse / Richard Ingham Ingham, Richard, Michael Ingham Ingham, Michael 98

Chapter 6 Shakespeare's 'Short' Pentameters and the Rhythms of Dramatic Verse / Peter Groves Groves, Peter 119

Chapter 7 Wholes and Holes in the Study of Shakespeare's Wordplay / Dirk Delabastita Delabastita, Dirk 139

Chapter 8 'a thing inseparate/Divides more wider than the sky and earth' - of Oxymoron in Shakespeare's Sonnets / Mireille Ravassat Ravassat, Mireille 165

Chapter 9 'Rue with a difference': a Computational Stylistic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Suicide in Hamlet / Thomas Anderson Anderson, Thomas, Scott Crossley Crossley, Scott 192

Chapter 10 Shakespeare's Sexual Language and Metaphor: a Cognitive-Stylistic Approach / José L. Oncins-Martinez Oncins-Martinez, José L. 215

Chapter 11 Cognitive Interplay: How Blending Theory and Cognitive Science Reread Shakespeare / Amy Cook Cook, Amy 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781441127952

144112795X

9781441171726

144117172X

OCLC:

731984783