Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts Textual Explorations Series
Auteur : Semino Elena
Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts introduces an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their interaction with the language of texts. The book demonstrates in detail three ways of approaching poetic text worlds, namely as discourse situations, possible worlds, and mental constructs. Clear and detailed introductions to linguistic theories of definiteness and deixis, possible world theory and schema theory are included, making the book accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with these frameworks.
1. Introduction
Part I: Poetic text worlds as discourse situations
2. Definiteness, indefiniteness and context creation
3. Deixis and context creation
Part II: Poetic text worlds as possible worlds
4. Possible-world theory, fiction and literature
5. Possible-world theory and the analysis of poetic text worlds
Part III: Poetic text worlds as cognitive constructs
6. Schema theory and literature
7. Schema theory and the analysis of poetic text worlds
8. Metaphor, schema refreshment and text worlds
9. Conclusion: the world of Sylvia Plath's 'The Applicant'
References
Index
Elena Semino is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. She has published extensively in the field of stylistics, and was awarded the 1995 Poetics and Linguistics Association Prize for the best article published by a young academic.
- This is the first book in the field which focuses on text worlds in poetry and applies possible-world and schema theory to poetry in a systematic way.
- A wide range of British and American poems in English are analysed.
- Brief sample analyses of non-poetic texts are also included.
- Encourages students to apply the analysis to other genres including novels, short stories, plays, advertisements and jokes.
Date de parution : 09-2016
13.8x21.6 cm
Thème de Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts :
Mots-clés :
worlds; schema; refreshment; accessibility; relations; morning; song; discourse; situations; construction; Young Men; Text Worlds; Schema Refreshment; Relevant Referent; Alethic Modality; Pillowed Head; Noun Phrase; Background Knowledge; Morning Song; Text World Construction; Snowy Evening; Definite Reference; Literary Text Worlds; Rubber Breasts; Woods Fill; Discourse Situation; Textual Actual World; Modern Schema Theory; Deictic Centre; Deictic Expressions; Definite Noun Phrases; Target Domain; Metaphorical Connections; Indefinite Reference; Past Tense