The Text and Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics

by Cynthia Bernstein (Editor)

Overview

Demonstrates that the approaches of literary linguistics extend to the many influences outside it—history, culture, or politics—that contribute to our understanding of language
 
The Text & Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics is a collection of suggestive models for those interested in using the tools of linguistics to meet the aims of literary criticism and theory. Only very recently have linguists and literary scholars come to recognize that their goals are compatible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817389352
Publisher:	University of Alabama Press
Publication date:	04/27/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	751 KB

About the Author

Cynthia Goldin Bernstein is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at The University of Memphis. She is coeditor of Language Variety in the South Revisited.
 

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Text and Context
The Contextualization of Linguistic Criticism BERNSTEIN CYNTHIA GOLDIN
Part 2. Pattern
Lexico-Syntactic Cohesion in Creeley's “I Know a Man” CHISHOLM WILLIAM S.
Anaphoric and Cataphoric Reference in Dickens's: Our Mutual Friend and James's Tbe Golden Bowl CHILTON CURRY MARY JANE
Comparison and Synthesis: Marianne Moore's Natural and Unnatural Taxonomies MONROE MELISSA
Part 3. Voice
Appropriated Voices in Gordon Weaver's: Eight Corners of the World BERNSTEIN CYNTHIA GOLDIN CAMPBELL EWINC
Script Theory, Perspective, and Message in Narrative: The Case of “Mi suicidio” TOLLIVER JOYCE
Part 4. Conversation
Conversational Style and the Form-Meaning Link in Literary Analysis NOGUCHI REI R.
Conversation and the Fitzgeralds: Conflict or Collaboration? ELLERBY JANET M.
Part 5. Language and Gender
Rosario Castellanos and the New Essay: Writing It Like a Woman PARHAM MARY COMEZ
“Policewoman,” Male Dominance, and the Cooperative Principle FRAZER JUNE M. FRAZER TIMOTHY C.
Part 6. Language and Power
The Language of Power and Powerlessness: Verbal Combat in the Plays of Tennessee Williams WILHELMI NANCY O.
Dialects of Power: The Two-Faced Narrative HOHNE KAREN A.
Part 7. Language and Culture
Literary Data and Linguistic Analysis: The Example of Modern German Immigrant Worker Literature FENNELL B. A.
“What a Parrot Talks”: The Janus Nature of Anglo-Irish Writing BERNSTEIN MASHEY
“You gone have to learn to talk right”: Linguistic Deference and Regional Dialect in Harry Crews's Body JOHNSTONE BARBARA
Contributors
Index