The Language and Literature Reader

Preface.  Acknowledgements.   Part 1: Foundations  'Taking a Poem to Pieces' John Sinclair.  'Stylistics' David Lodge.  ‘Linguistic Function and Literary Style: An Inquiry into the Language of William Golding’s The Inheritors’ Michael Haliday.  ‘On the Deviance of Literary Discourse’ Henry Widdowson.  ‘Applying Linguistics’ Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt.  ‘Linguistic Criticism’ Roger Fowler.  'Metre' Geoffrey Leech.  'Discourse Analysis and Drama' Mick Short.  Part 2: Developments ‘Poem, Reader, Response: Making Sense with ‘Skunk Hour’ Michael Toolan.  ‘Style and Interpretation in Hemingway’s "Cat in the Rain"’ Ron Carter.  ‘Changing the Guard at Elsinore’ Walter Nash.  ‘But what is Literature?: Toward a Descriptive Definition of Literature’ Willie van Peer.  ‘Deixis and the Poetic Persona’ Keith Green Bakhtin.  Addressivity, and the Poetics of Objectivity’ Alison Tate.  ‘Teach Yourself Rhetoric: An Analysis of Philip Larkin’s "Church Going"’ Katie Wales.  'World Enough and Time: Deictic Space and the Interpretation of Prose' Paul Werth.  'Making the Subtle Difference; Literature and Non-Literature in the Classroom' Guy Cook.  Part 3: New Directions  ‘Educating the Reader: Narrative Technique and Evaluation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland’ Jean Jacques Weber.  'Satirical Humour and Cultural Context: With a Note on the Curious Case of Father Todd Unctuous' Paul Simpson.  (Sur)real Stylistics: From Text to Contextualizing’ Peter Stockwell.  'Feeling Moved by Metaphor' Ray Gibbs.  'Point of View in Drama: An Analysis of Brimstone and Treacle' Dan McIntyre.  'Conrad in the Computer: Examples of Quantitative Stylistic Methods' Michael Stubbs.  '‘Split Selves" in Fiction and in Medical ‘Life Stories’' Catherine Emmott.  'Too Much Blague? The Text Worlds of Barthelme’s Snow White’' Joanna Gavins.  'A Cognitive Stylistic Approach to Mind Style in Narrative Fiction' Elena Semino.  'Connectives in Free Indirect Style: Continuity or Shift?' Violeta Sotirova.  Part 4: Coda  'Stylistics: Retrospect and Prospect' Peter Stockwell and Ron Carter.  Index

Biography

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Ronald Carter is Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham. He has written and edited more than 50 books in the fields of literary-linguistics, language and education, applied linguistics and the teaching of English. He has taught and lectured in over thirty countries world-wide and published over 100 academic papers. Recent and forthcoming books include: Exploring Grammar in Context (with Rebecca Hughes and Michael McCarthy) (CUP, 2000); The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ed with David Nunan) (CUP, 2001); second editions of Working with Texts and (with John McRae) The Routledge History of Literature in English (Routledge, 2001) and The Routledge Guide to Modern Writing (2003). Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk (Routledge) was published in 2004 and forthcoming in 2005 is The Cambridge Grammar of English (with Michael McCarthy). Professor Carter is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a fellow of the British Academy for Social Sciences and is currently chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (2003-2006).

Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and the author of many books and academic articles in the fields of literature and language, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, language and cognition, surrealism and literary theory. His most recent books include Sociolinguistics (Routledge, 2001), Cognitive Poetics (Routledge, 2002) and Language in Theory (with Mark Robson, Routledge, 2004). He is the editor of the Routledge English Language Introductions series. Previous books include The Poetics of Science Fiction (Longman, 2000), a co-edited festschrift volume in honour of Professor Peter Verdonk of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, entitled Contextualised Stylistics (Rodopi). In 1996, with Howard Jackson, he wrote a language study textbook, An Introduction to the Nature and Functions of Language (Stanley Thornes), and edited (with Derek Littlewood) a collection of essays on science fiction and fantasy literature: Impossibility Fiction: Alternativity - Extrapolation - Speculation (Rodopi). In 1991 he edited with Phillip Shaw, Subjectivity and Literature from the Romantics to the Present Day: Creating the Self (Pinter). He also edits the e-journal Nottingham Linguistic Circular. In the School of English Studies, he is director of Praxis - the centre for the study of literary discourse. He is also head of Modern English Language, acts as Deputy Head of School, and is the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Peter Stockwell is currently treasurer of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). >