Contemporary perspectives on language, culture and identity in Anglo-American contexts / edited by Eva Antal, Csaba CzeglEdi and Eszter Krakko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antal, Éva

Contributor:

Antal, Éva, editor.

CzeglEdi, Csaba, editor.

Krakko, Eszter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture--United States.

Language and culture.

Identity (Psychology).

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This collection of essays highlights the great variety one finds in contemporary scholarly discourse in the fields of English and American studies and English linguistics in a broad and inclusive way. It is divided into thematically structured sections, the first two of which examine the motif of travelling and images of recollection in literary works, while the third and the fourth parts deal with male and female voices in narratives. Another chapter discusses visual and textual representations of history. The last two subsections focus on the rhetorical and theoretical questions of language. The pluralism of themes indicated in the book's title can thus be regarded not as a limitation, but, rather, as evidence of its potential.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Remembrance and Oblivion

Myth and Mythopoeia as Lawrentian Modes of Discourse in "The Ladybird"

Embodied Remembrance in Evie Wyld's After the Fire, a Still Small Voice

"The Bondman's Bitter Woe"

The Redeeming Power of Friendship in Stephen King's Fiction

Quest and the Journey

Edith Wharton's Views of France (1908-1920)

Conflicting Identities as a Representation of Cultural and Spatial In-Betweenness in Nirpal Shing Dhaliwal's Tourism

Buddhism in P.L. Travers's Mary Poppins Novels

Voices of Authority and Power

Realism and Regimes of Truth in Jonathan Franzen's Purity

Narrative Performance and Authority in Martin Amis's The Information

Joseph Addison and the Early 18th-Century Tradition of the Sublime

Doctor Faustus from a Wittgensteinian Perspective

Representations of Femininity and Otherness

Oppression and Revolt in Sylvia Plath's Poetry

Ephemeral Art in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

The Abnormal Body in Push by Sapphire

Emily Dickinson's Seclusion and Print Publication

Imagining and Experiencing History

SOE Operations in Hungary during the Second World War

Mission Impossible

An Aisling on Film

The Tilbury Speech and Queen Elizabeth

Meaning and Sound in Language

On the Sense Development of CAN

The Interaction and Combination of Metaphor and Metonymy

British English as an Icon?

Semi-Rhoticity in Language Contact

Language and Its Teachers (and Their Teachers)

Joining the Academic Tribe

The Theory or No Theory (Non-)Issue in Foreign Language Teacher Education.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-4030-8

OCLC:

1183030055