The Language And Literature Reader Paperback

Peter Stockwell

The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. Bringing together the most significant work in the field with integrated editorial material, this Reader is a structured and accessible tool for the student and scholar. Divided into three sections, Foundations, Developments and New Directions, the Reader provides an overview of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 70s, through the new theories and practices of the 1980s and 90s, to the most recent and contemporary work in the field. Each article contains a brief introduction by the editors situating it in the context of developing work in the discipline and glossing it in terms of the section and of the book as a whole. The final section concludes with a `history and manifesto', written by the editors, which places developments in the area of stylistics within a brief history of the field and offers a polemical perspective on the future of a growing and influential discipline.

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9.78042E+12

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Taylor And Francis Ltd

25-Aug-08

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Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham and the author of many books and academic articles in the fields of literature and language, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, language and cognition, surrealism and literary theory. His most recent books include Sociolinguistics (Routledge, 2001), Cognitive Poetics (Routledge, 2002) and Language in Theory (with Mark Robson, Routledge, 2004). He is the editor of the Routledge English Language Introductions series. Previous books include The Poetics of Science Fiction (Longman, 2000), a co-edited festschrift volume in honour of Professor Peter Verdonk of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, entitled Contextualised Stylistics (Rodopi). In 1996, with Howard Jackson, he wrote a language study textbook, An Introduction to the Nature and Functions of Language (Stanley Thornes), and edited (with Derek Littlewood) a collection of essays on science fiction and fantasy literature: Impossibility Fiction: Alternativity - Extrapolation - Speculation (Rodopi). In 1991 he edited with Phillip Shaw, Subjectivity and Literature from the Romantics to the Present Day: Creating the Self (Pinter). He also edits the e-journal Nottingham Linguistic Circular. In the School of English Studies, he is director of Praxis - the centre for the study of literary discourse. He is also head of Modern English Language, acts as Deputy Head of School, and is the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Peter Stockwell is currently treasurer of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)

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