Poetic effects : a relevance theory perspective / Adrian Pilkington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pilkington, Adrian.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 75.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Criticism.

Relevance.

Physical Description:

xiv, 209 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : J. Benjamins Pub, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies by proposing a new theoretical account of literariness in terms of mental representations and mental processes.The book attempts to define literariness in terms of text-internal linguistic properties, cultural codes or special purpose reading strategies, as well as suggestions that the notion of literariness should be dissolved or rejected. It challenges the accounts of language and verbal communication that underpin such positions and outlines the theory of verbal communication developed within relevance theory that supports an explanatory account of poetic effects and a new account of literariness. This is followed by a broader discussion of philosophical and psychological issues having a bearing on the question of what is expressed non-propositionally in literary communication. The discussion of emotion, qualitative experience and, more specifically, aesthetic experience provides a fuller characterisation of poetic effects and 'poetic thought'.

Contents:

POETIC EFFECTS

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Literary studies and literary theory

Chapter 2. Theories of literariness, language and communication in literary studies

Chapter 3. Pragmatic Theory

Chapter 4. Metaphor

Chapter 5. Schemes and verse effects

Chapter 6. Emotion, attitude and sentimentality

Chapter 7. Varieties of affective experience

Chapter 8. Conclusion

References

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612163180

9781282163188

1282163183

9789027250902

9027250901

9789027298980

902729898X

OCLC:

70765375