Literature about language

by Shepherd, Valerie

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Title Statements

Full title :Literature about language / Valerie Shepherd.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1994.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 178 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0203131290, 9780203131299, 9780415069960, 0415069963, 9780415069977, 0415069971
oclc:ocn252815767
LC Classification:PN56.L27
Dewey Decimal:809/.93

The human capacity for language : The inheritors by William Golding -- Linguistic creativity and limitation : 'my sweet old etcetera' by e.e. cummmings -- Sound and meaning : 'The upper birch-leaves' by Thomas Hardy -- Making meaning : Susan Sontag's essay 'AIDS and its metaphors' and Eva Salzman's poem 'Time out' -- The narrative art of language : poetry by Elizabeth Jennings and the short story 'Eveline' from James Joyce's Dubliners -- Standard and non-standard English : the Dorset poetry of William Barnes, with reference to Tennyson's Lincolnshire monologues and Tom Leonard's Glasgow poems -- The language of women and men : 'Nervous prostration' by Anna Wickham with particular reference to Jonathan Swift's 'The furniture of a woman's mind' -- The power of discourse : David Lodge's novel Nice work and poetry by Tom Leonard -- The signalling of meaning : 'Something for the time being' by Nadine Gordimer.

Subjects

Comparative literature -- Themes, motiv… Langage et langues Language Language and languages Literary Criticism -- General Literature Littérature comparée -- Thèmes, motifs TRAVEL -- Special Interest