Stylistics in Shakespeare's language: transdisciplinary approaches
by Culpeper, Jonathan Ravassat, Mireille
This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, c…
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- Full title :Stylistics in Shakespeare's language : transdisciplinary approaches / edited by Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper.
Summary
This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare'
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Continuum
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781441164254, 1441164251
- oclc:ocn742512807
- LC Classification:PR3072
- Dewey Decimal:822.3/3
Table of Contents
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper; Chapter 1 'Strange deliveries': Contextualizing Shakespeare's First Citations in the OED Giles Goodland; Chapter 2 Shakespeare's Vocabulary: Did it Dwarf All Others? Ward E.Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza; Chapter 3 A New Kind of Dictionary for Shakespeare's Plays: an Immodest Proposal1 Jonathan Culpeper; Chapter 4 'If I break time': Shakespearean Line Endings on the Page and the Stage Peter Kanelos.
Chapter 5 Subject-Verb Inversion and Iambic Rhythmin Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse Richard Ingham and Michael Ingham1Chapter 6 Shakespeare's 'Short' Pentameters and the Rhythms of Dramatic Verse Peter Groves; Chapter 7 Wholes and Holes in the Study of Shakespeare's Wordplay Dirk Delabastita1; Chapter 8 'a thing inseparate/Divides more wider than the sky and earth' -- of Oxymoron in Shakespeare's Sonnets1 Mireille Ravassat; Chapter 9 'Rue with a difference': a Computational Stylistic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Suicide in Hamlet Thomas Anderson and Scott Crossley.
Chapter 10 Shakespeare's Sexual Language and Metaphor: a Cognitive-Stylistic…
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