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1 online resource (vi, 238 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Linguistic approaches to literature ; 28
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Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 28.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Chapter 6. "How Others See ... ": 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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Landscapes in literature.
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Landscapes in literature. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Douthwaite, John, editor.
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Virdis, Daniela Francesca, editor.
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Zurru, Elisabetta, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stylistics of landscapes, the landscapes of stylistics. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9027200025 (OCoLC)1001779788 |
| ISBN |
9789027264602 (electronic book) |
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9027264600 (electronic book) |
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9027200025 (hardback) |
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9789027200020 (hardback) |
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