"This book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, critics and literary theorists to define the language of literature have involved self-contradiction. Through examination of key moments in literary history, Derek Attridge dem…
"This book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, critics and literary theorists to define the language of literature have involved self-contradiction. Through examination of key moments in literary history, Derek Attridge dem…
Committed styles' offers a new understanding of the politicized literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism. It reclaims a central body of literary and critical works for modernist studies, offering in-depth readings of texts by T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards, as wel…
"This book explores the interaction between corpus stylistics and translation studies. It shows how corpus methods can be used to compare the style of literary texts to that of their translations, through the study of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and four of its Italian ver…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Shakespeare's writing practice: value, exchange, and the work of form; 2. The stylistic self in Richard II; 3. Portia's laboratory: The Merchant of Venice and the new science; 4. The medium and the message: As You Like It; 5. Hamlet's parenthe…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Shakespeare's writing practice: value, exchange, and the work of form; 2. The stylistic self in Richard II; 3. Portia's laboratory: The Merchant of Venice and the new science; 4. The medium and the message: As You Like It; 5. Hamlet's parenthe…
"Making innovative use of digital and library archives, this book explores how Shakespeare used language to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England. By also combining word history with book history, Jonathan P. Lamb demonstrates Shakespeare's response to the…
"Making innovative use of digital and library archives, this book explores how Shakespeare used language to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England. By also combining word history with book history, Jonathan P. Lamb demonstrates Shakespeare's response to the…
Galileo (1564-1642) incorporated throughout his work the language of battle, the rhetoric of the epic, and the structure of romance as a means to elicit emotional responses from his readers against his opponents. By turning to the literary as a field for creating knowledge, Gali…
Style and form in Old-Babylonian literary texts
