Language in literature

Language in literature: style and foregrounding

by Leech, Geoffrey N.

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Leech sets the concept of foregrounding (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the 'flight from the text'.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Language in literature : style and foregrounding / Geoffrey Leech.

Summary

Leech sets the concept of foregrounding (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the 'flight from the text'.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.
  • Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Pearson Longman
  • Place of Publication:Harlow, England
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2008.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1306969646, 9781306969642, 9780582051096, 0582051096, 9781315846125, 1315846128
  • oclc:ocn884551104
  • LC Classification:PE1421
  • Dewey Decimal:808/.042

Table of Contents

Linguistics and the figures of rhetoric -- 'This bread I break' : language and interpretation -- Literary criticism and linguistic description -- Stylistics -- Music in metre : 'sprung rhythm' in Victorian poetry -- Pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics and the celebrated letter' -- Stylistics and functionalism -- Pragmatic principles in Shaw's You never can tell -- Style in interior monologue : Virginia Woolf's 'The mark on the wall' -- Work in progress in corpus stylistics : a method of finding 'deviant' or 'key' features of texts, and its application to 'The mark on the wall' -- Closing statement : text, interpretation, history and education.

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Subjects

Anglais (Langue) -- Stylistique Criticism, interpretation, etc English language -- Style English literature -- Explication English literature -- History and criti… English literature -- Theory, etc Literary style Style littéraire

Writers

Leech, Geoffrey N.

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