192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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In Literature About Language Valerie Shepherd brings together linguistic theory and literary criticism and examines languages as a theme in a range of literary texts. By looking at the work of writers such as Swift, Joyce and Sontag she discusses the power of story-telling and metaphor to shape our thinking and examines the communicative capacities of non-standard English and the strengths of... Read more
Introduction: Literature about language 1 The human capacity for language The Inheritors by William Golding 2 Linguistic creativity and limitation ‘my sweet old etcetera’ by e.e. cummings 3 Sound and meaning ‘The upper birch-leaves’ by Thomas Hardy 4 Making meaning Susan Sontag’s essay ‘AIDS and its metaphors’ and Eva Salzman’s poem ‘Time out’ 5 The narrative art of language Poetry by Elizabeth Jennings and the short story ‘Eveline’ from James Joyce’s Dubliners 6 Standard and Non-standard English The Dorset poetry of William Barnes, with reference to Tennyson’s Lincolnshire monologues and Tom Leonard’s Glasgow poems 7 The language of women and men ‘Nervous prostration’ by Anna Wickham with particular reference to Jonathan Swift’s ‘The furniture of a woman’s mind’ 8 The power of discourse David Lodge’s novel Nice Work and poetry by Tom Leonard 9 The signalling of meaning
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Valerie Shepard
