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The Language of Jane Austen (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Norman Page

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 38,70 MB

Release : 2013-01-11

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1136599606

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First published in 1972, Norman Page’s seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the exceptional nature and the degree of subtlety of Jane Austen’s use of language. As well as examining the staple items of her vocabulary and some of the characteristic patterns of her syntax, attention is paid to her use of dialogue and of the letter form. The aim of the study is not simply to analyse linguistic qualities for their own sake but to employ close verbal analysis to enrich the critical understanding of Jane Austen’s novels.



The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

Author : John Casey

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 17,1 MB

Release : 2012-07-26

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1136736824

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First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein. Literary critical and aesthetic judgements are rational, but are not to be explained by scientific methods. Criticism discovers reasons for a response, rather than causes, and is a rational procedure, rather than the expression of simply subjective taste, or of ideology, or of the power relations of society. The book aims at a philosophical justification of the tradition of practical criticism that runs from Matthew Arnold, through T.S.Eliot to I.A.Richards, William Empson, F.R.Leavis and the American New Critics. It argues that the close reading of texts moves justifiably from text to world, from aesthetic to ethical valuation. In this it differs radically from the schools of "theory" that have recently dominated the humanities.



How to Do Things with Narrative

Author : Jan Alber

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 46,27 MB

Release : 2017-11-20

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 3110569957

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This volume combines narratological analyses with an investigation of the ideological ramifications of the use of narrative strategies. The collected essays do not posit any intrinsic or stable connection between narrative techniques and world views. Rather, they demonstrate that world views are inevitably expressed through highly specific formal strategies. This insight leads the contributors to investigate why and how particular narrative techniques are employed and under what conditions.



Routledge Revivals: The Violence of Language (1990)

Author : Jean-Jacques Lecercle

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 283 pages

File Size : 50,40 MB

Release : 2016-09-19

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1315514680

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First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its ‘object’ by separating ‘relevant’ from ‘irrelevant’ phenomena — excluding the latter. This leaves a ‘remainder’ which consists of the untidy, creative part of how language is used — the essence of poetry and metaphor. Although this remainder can never be completely formalised, it must be fully recognised by any true account of language and thus this book attempts the first ‘theory of the remainder’. As such, whether it is language or the speaker who speaks is dealt with, leading to an analysis of how all speakers are ‘violently’ constrained in their use of language by social and psychological realties.



Point of View (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Susan L. Ehrlich

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 122 pages

File Size : 11,38 MB

Release : 2014-04-08

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1317674839

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The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts; from the perspective of literary studies, to explain certain non-linguistic aspects of the texts in terms of linguistic form. This study therefore aims to provide a balanced and sufficiently comprehensive account of the relationship between linguistic form and point of view. It will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in linguistics, and literary style.



Unspeakable Sentences (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Ann Banfield

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 355 pages

File Size : 39,13 MB

Release : 2014-07-17

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1317598830

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First published in 1982, this title grew from a series of essays on various aspects of narrative style; the result is a finished product that melds literary theory with linguistic methodology. It is argued that, where linguistic theory intersects with literary theory, it is narrative that provides the crucial ‘experiment’ for deciding between a communication and a non-communication theory of language and, by extension, of literature. Chapters discuss such areas as subjectivity in direct and indirect speech, the absence of the narrator, and the development of narrative style. With a detailed introduction to the subject, this reissue will be of value to students of linguistics and literature with a particular interest in narrative style and linguistic theory.



Resisting Novels (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Lennard J. Davis

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 237 pages

File Size : 31,54 MB

Release : 2014-06-27

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317672224

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"By making friends with signs", Lennard Davis argues, "we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social world, the world of action, and binding ourselves to the ideological." For the reader, this power of the novel needs to be resisted. But there is a double resistance at work: the novel is also a defensive structure positioning us against alienation and loneliness: the dehumanising symptoms of modern life. While discussions surrounding ideology in novels traditionally concentrate on thematics, in this study – first published in 1987 - Davis approaches the subject through such structural features as location, character, dialogue and plot. Drawing on a wide range of novels from the seventeenth century to the present day, and on psychoanalysis as well as philosophy, Resisting Novels explores how fiction works subliminally to resist change and to detach the reader from the world of lived experience. This controversial critique will engage students and academics with a particular interest in literary theory.



Women, Power and Subversion (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Judith Lowder Newton

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 149 pages

File Size : 49,13 MB

Release : 2013-11-05

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1136193987

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First published in 1981, this book explores the reactions of some female writers to the social effects of industrial capitalism between 1778 and 1860. The period set in motion a crisis over the status of middle-class women that culminated in the constructed idea of "women’s proper sphere". This concept disguised inequities between men and women, first by asserting the reality of female power, and then by restricting it to self-sacrificing influence. In this book, Judith Newton analyses novels such as Fanny Burney’s Evelina, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss in order to demonstrate how some female writers reacted to the issue by covertly resisting inequities of power and reconciling ideologies in their art. She argues that in this time period, novels became increasingly rebellious as well as ambivalent . Heroines were endowed with power, and emphasis was given to female ability, rather than to feminine influence.



The Brontë Novels (Routledge Revivals)

Author : W. A. Craik

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 29,61 MB

Release : 2013-01-11

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1136599398

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First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr. Craik’s critical appreciation of the completed novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë is seminal for the way in which it shifts emphasis away from the Brontë family biography towards a detailed critical analysis of the novels themselves. Separate chapters are given to each of the seven novels. The author’s aims and techniques in each are assessed and Dr. Craik shows what light the books throw on each other, how they are related to the novels of the Brontë’s predecessors, and how the Brontë novels compare with their great contemporaries in the nineteenth century novel.



The Ideology of Conduct (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Nancy Armstrong

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 195 pages

File Size : 26,3 MB

Release : 2014-06-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317744314

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In The Ideology of Conduct, first published in 1987, scholars from various fields, from the medieval period to the present day, discuss literature in which the sole purpose is to instruct women in how to make themselves desirable. This collection investigates how middle-class writers who had long emulated the behaviour of the aristocracy began to criticise that behaviour by formulating an alternative object of desire. They did so without appearing to breed political controversy because it seemed to concern only the female. But writing for and about women in fact became a powerful instrument of hegemony as it introduced a whole new vocabulary for social relations, induced certain forms of economic behaviour as desirable in men and women respectively, and insured the reproduction of the nuclear family. It is argued, therefore, that the literature of conduct not only recorded but also assisted the production of our contemporary gender-based culture.