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Language in place : stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment / edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru, Ernestine Lahey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Linguistic approaches to literature 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscapes in literature.
- Environmental geography in literature.
- Place (Philosophy) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins, [2021]
- Summary:
- "The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions. Employing both established and cutting-edge methodologies from, among others, corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, Text World Theory and ecostylistics, the eleven chapters in the volume provide an overview of how landscape, place and environment are encoded and can be investigated in literary and non-literary discourse. The studies collected here stand as evidence of the possibility of, and the need for, a "stylistics of landscape", which emphasises how represented spaces are made manifest linguistically; a "stylistics of place", which focuses on the discursive and affective qualities of those represented spaces; and a "stylistics of environment", which reiterates the urgency for environmentally-responsible humanities, able to support a change in the anthropocentric narrative which poses humans as the most important variable in the human-animal and human-environment relationships"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Thematic adverbial adjuncts of place and direction and their relationship to conceptual metaphor in A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad
- Chapter 3. Death by nature in two poems by Alden Nowlan
- Chapter 4. Liminal islands
- Chapter 5. Urban metaphors
- Chapter 6. The Arabic of Dune
- Chapter 7. (Re)mapping “authentic” London
- Chapter 8. “Boston Strong”
- Chapter 9. Naming as styling
- Chapter 10. “She enjoys being stroked”, “They are affectionate, lively and interactive boys”
- Chapter 11. “Your planet needs you”
- Chapter 12. London past and present
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9789027260161
- 9027260168
- OCLC:
- 1242019999
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