Stylistics : prospect & retrospect / edited by David L. Hoover and Sharon Lattig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoover, David L., 1949-

Lattig, Sharon.

Poetics and Linguistics Association.

Poetics and Linguistics Association. International Conference 2004 : New York, N.Y.)

Series:

PALA (Series) ; 3.

PALA papers ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Literary style.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Prospect & retrospect

Prospect and retrospect

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Stylistics: Prospect andamp; Retrospect looks backward toward classic and foundational approaches and texts that helped to establish the field of stylistics. It also looks forward by examining recent innovations that seem likely to alter the ways in which style is studied in the years to come. The essays presented here, written by an array of experts from nine countries on four continents, employ a wide range of approaches to works that range from romantic poetry to contemporary fiction and from traditional folktales and nursery rhymes to contemporary film. The variety of authors, approaches, and works found here testifies to the vitality of the field of stylistics, and these essays should appeal to all those interested in the nature of style and in the history and future of stylistics.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Foregrounding: Past, Present, Future / Willie van Peer , Sonia Zyngier and Jèmeljan Hakemulder

Modernist Poetics of Estrangement: Ezra Pound’s Answer to Stéphane Mallarmé / Anne Birien

Local Interpretation and the Syntax of Keats’s ‘To Autumn’ / Robin J. Sowards

Story Elements as Sets / Henrik Schärfe

The Metrical Structure of Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes: A Corpus Study / Yuchau E. Hsiao

Embodiment and the Irreducible Sign: Towards a Theoretical Anthropo-Semiotic Grounding for Literary Textual Analysis / Ulf Cronquist

Historical Transformations of Free Indirect Style / Violeta Sotirova

Using Speech and Thought Presentation to Validate Hypotheses Regarding the Nature of the Crime Novels of Andrea Camilleri / John Douthwaite

How to Make a Drama out of a Speech Act: The Speech Act of Apology in the Film A Fish Called Wanda / Mick Short

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

"This volume comprises essays selected and edited from among the presentations given at the 24th annual international conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association in New York in 2004"--Introd.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0531-0

1-4356-1334-1

OCLC:

712988630

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401205313 DOI