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Explorations in Stylistics
Andrew Goatly
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Hardback. Explores some of the developments in Stylistics since its pioneer, Roman Jakobson identified the patterning of the message as the poetic function. This collection includes analysis of: Golding's "Pincher Martin", Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Housman's "A Shropshire Lad", and Elizabeth Jennings' poem "One Flesh". Series: Functional Linguistics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 28 tables and 4 figures. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
This book explores some of the developments in Stylistics since its pioneer, Roman Jakobson identified the patterning of the message as the poetic function. It analyses in turn Golding's "Pincher Martin", Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Housman's "A Shropshire Lad", Elizabeth Jennings' poem "One Flesh", Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party", Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day", and a range of poems by John Donne. The analyses show how Jakobson's emphasis on the message gives way to emphasis on the code or on undermining the code (in the Golding and Donne chapters), on the context (in the Rowling and ... Read more
This book explores some of the developments in Stylistics since its pioneer, Roman Jakobson identified the patterning of the message as the poetic function. It analyses in turn Golding's "Pincher Martin", Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Housman's "A Shropshire Lad", Elizabeth Jennings' poem "One Flesh", Harold Pinter's "The Birthday Party", Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day", and a range of poems by John Donne. The analyses show how Jakobson's emphasis on the message gives way to emphasis on the code or on undermining the code (in the Golding and Donne chapters), on the context (in the Rowling and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Functional Linguistics
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845532963
SKU
V9781845532963
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About Andrew Goatly
Andrew Goatly has considerable experience in teaching English language and literature in colleges and universities in the UK, Rwanda, Thailand, Austria, and Singapore. He is at present Professor in the English Department of Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is the author of three other books, The Language of Metaphors (Routledge 1997), Critical Reading and Writing (Routledge 2000) and ... Read more
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