Language, Literature and Critical Practice: Ways of Analysing Text

ISBN-13: 9780415029414 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 232 str.

David Birch

Opis

Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates an equally broad range of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between actual and virtual worlds in critical practice, arguing for an unambiguous relation between critical practice and theories of language, and elucidating the critically important practice of how texts mean.

Recenzje

`Paves the way for a politically more aware and more responsible stylistics, and as such makes essential reading for anybody interested in the practice of literary criticism, and more particularly, in the role of ideology at the interface of language and literature.' - Journal of Literary Semantics

`Accessible style and presentation ... extensive bibliography.' - Poetics Today

Spis treści

Chapter 1 How texts mean; Chapter 2 Language, literature and scientific fictions; Chapter 3 Reading literary texts; Chapter 4 Reading texts closely; Chapter 5 The linguistics of text;

O autorze

David Birch is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Central Queensland, Australia. Previously he taught at Murdoch University in Western Australia, and at the National University of Singapore, having completed his doctorate at the University of York, England.