Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language (eBook, PDF)

Transdisciplinary Approaches
Redaktion: Ravassat, Mireille; Culpeper, Jonathan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441164254
• Artikelnr.: 38300582

Autorenporträt

Mireille Ravassat is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Valenciennes University, France Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of  English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors \ Introduction, Mireille Ravassat & Jonathan Culpeper
\ 1. 'Strange deliveries': contextualising Shakespeare's first citations in
the OED Giles Goodland \ 2. Shakespeare's vocabulary: did it dwarf all
others? Ward E. Y. Elliott & Robert J. Valenza \ 3. A new kind of
dictionary for Shakespeare's plays: an immodest proposal Jonathan Culpeper
\ 4. 'If I break time': Shakespearean line endings on the page and the
stage Peter Kanelos \ 5. Subject-verb inversion and iambic rhythm in
Shakespeare's dramatic verse Richard Ingham and Michael Ingham \ 6.
Shakespeare's 'short' pentameters and the rhythms of dramatic verse Peter
Groves \ 7. Wholes and holes in the study of Shakespeare's wordplay Dirk
Delabastita \ 8 'a thing inseparate / Divides more wider than the sky and
earth' - of oxymoron in Shakespeare's Sonnets Mireille Ravassat \ 9. 'Rue
with a difference': a computational stylistic analysis of the rhetoric of
suicide in Hamlet Thomas Anderson and Scott Crossley \ 10. Shakespeare's
sexual language and metaphor: a cognitive-stylistic approach José L. Oncins
Martínez \ 11.Cognitive Interplay: how Blending Theory and cognitive
science reread Shakespeare Amy Cook \ Bibliography \ Index