The stylistics of landscapes, the landscapes of stylistics

The stylistics of landscapes, the landscapes of stylistics

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Douthwaite, John (-), Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Zurru, Elisabetta
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company [2017]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Linguistic approaches to literature ; 28.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38234713*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1. Themes, tools and interconnections
  • 2. Structure of the book
  • References
  • Chapter 2. The role of analogy in Charles Dickens' Pictures from Italy
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of analogy
  • 3. Further implications
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Listing and impressionism in Charles Dickens's description of Genoa in Pictures from Italy
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The extent of list constructions in the description of Genoa
  • 3. What do list constructions 'mean'?
  • 4. Lists in Dickens's description of Genoa
  • 4.1 The first list
  • 4.2 The second list
  • 4.3 The third list
  • 4.4 The longest list
  • and a little bit more
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 4. Immersed in imagined landscapes: Contextual frames and metalepsis in representing virtual travel in Elspeth Davie's "A map of the world"
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Elspeth Davie's "A map of the world"
  • 3. Theoretical background
  • 3.1 Transportation, immersion and embodiment
  • 3.2 Metalepsis
  • 3.3 Contextual frames
  • 3.4 The direction of deictic transfer
  • 3.5 Granularity
  • 4. Analysis of Elspeth Davie's "A map of the world"
  • 4.1 Background to the story: Overall contextual structure
  • 4.2 Border crossing and imagined worlds
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5. The blind tour: Spatial abstraction in experimental fiction
  • 1. Narrative space, final frontiers
  • 2. The blind tour and the mental representation of locations
  • 3. An experiment in the textualisation of space
  • 3.1 Thematisation and description
  • 3.2 Monitoring contextual configurations
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References.
  • Chapter 6. "How Others See {u2026}": Landscape and identity in a translated poem by Radnóti
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The pattern of focalisation
  • 3. Above and below, far and near, now and over time
  • 4. Magic
  • 5. Identity and guilt
  • 6. Reception
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7. The poems of Edward Thomas: A case study in ecostylistics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The agentive power of natural participants
  • 3. Activation of Tokens/Existents and personification
  • 4. Co-ordination and apposition of human and natural objects
  • 5. Simile and literalisation
  • 5.1 Summary
  • 6. Symbolism and symbolisation: Hough, Hasan
  • 7. Significance of literalisation in Thomas: Poetic technique and personality
  • 8. Some varieties of literalisation and symbolism: Poems on water, weather, trees, and paths
  • 9. Birdsong and language
  • 10. Inexplicitness, vagueness and negativity
  • 11. Summary
  • References
  • Chapter 8. Landscape as a dominant hero in "Bezhin Meadow" by I. S. Turgenev
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A glorious July day
  • 3. From sunset to night, roaming in twilight
  • 4. The mystery of night
  • 4.1 Night on the earth: Firelight vs. darkness, people vs. demons
  • 4.2 Night in the heaven: Cosmic skyscape
  • 5. The new day
  • References
  • Chapter 9. A social landscape: Form and style in an Edith Wharton short story
  • 1. Background to Edith Wharton and "The day of the funeral"
  • 2. Objectives and method
  • 3. The opening two paragraphs
  • 3a. The first paragraph
  • 3b. The second paragraph
  • 4. Confirmation
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 10. The agency of The Hungry Tide: An ecostylistic analysis
  • 1. Introduction: Background and aims
  • 2. Theoretical and methodological framework
  • 3. The Hungry Tide as a case study in ecostylistics
  • 4. The Hungry Tide: Ecostylistic analysis.
  • 4.1 Overview of THT: Contextualisation
  • 4.2 Ecostylistic analysis
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Text 1
  • Text 2
  • Text 3
  • Name index
  • Subject index.

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