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Today's world is characterized and dominated by manipulative politics and rhetorical power that impose a specific type of persuasive language which serves to shape our responses and change our attitudes. Within such an atmosphere language appears to be a crucial element in determining the way we think and the manner we behave. This book presents a computationally-based critical discourse analysis of political persuasion in two sites of power conflict represented in two different literary genres: the conversational and the narrative. The book clarifies the extent to which rhetorical dimension...

It is straightforwardly acknowledged that Shakespeare's works continue to provide cultural and artistic standards for contemporary playwrights who tend to rewrite Shakespeare's classics to modernize their old ideas and make them relevant to contemporary cultures. This book discusses the extent to which Edward Bond uses Shakespeare's King Lear as an intertext to write his Lear. The book clarifies that Bond, through rewriting King Lear, does not tend to criticize Shakespeare's original. However, he attempts to reflect both a profound admiration for King Lear and an insistence upon the use of...