Norm and Anomaly in Language, Literature, and Culture

ISBN-13: 9783631675151 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2017 / 182 str.

Jaroslaw Wilinski; Joanna Stolarek

Opis

This book focuses on examining diverse facets of norm and anomaly from a linguistic, didactic, literary and cultural perspective. The authors address, among others, problems related to order and chaos, expression and repression, autonomy and oppression, harmony and discord in modern and contemporary British and US literature and culture.

Spis treści

Humour - Norm transgression - Rage comics - Riddles - Foodsemy - Antipassive-like structures - Verbalisations in sitcom - Extraposed constructions - Idioms - Disability - Eugenics - Cult of youth and beauty - Liminality - The Young British Artists - Artworks - Murder - Death penalty - Religion - Violence - Grace - The Conservative Revolution - The Republican Party

O autorze

Jaroslaw Wilinski received his PhD at the University of Gdansk. He is the author of several articles on applications of cognitive linguistics in onomasiological lexicography and on the use of quantitative methods in linguistic research.

Joanna Stolarek holds a PhD on Anglophone crime fiction and a BA on French studies. She has authored many articles among others on British and American detective fiction, late Victorian literature, modernist American poetry, and postmodernist American literature.