1st Edition
Literature, Language and Change From Chaucer to the Present
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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How did the rise of polite society change the language of literature? What was the effect of Romanticism on poetic word order? How does knowing the answers to these questions alter the meaning of a text for us?
Reading literature is a quest for sense, involving us in a need to grasp both how meaning is produced by the words on the page and how history, culture and ideology have influenced the... Read more
1. Approaches to decoding the language of literature 2. Syntagm and paradigm from Chaucer to Milton 3. Revolutions in literary English 4. A shifting focus: the nineteenth century 5. The twentieth century: struggles with the word 6. ‘This mad instead’: figurative language 7. Conclusion
Biography
John Stephens
Ruth Waterhouse
