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Style, rhetoric and creativity in language : in memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015) /
"This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar--a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Linguistic approaches to literature ;
v. 34. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Warmth of thought" in Walter Nash's prose and verse / Susan Cockcroft and Robert Cockcroft
- Chrysanthemums for Bill: on Lawrentian style and stylistics / Peter Stockwell
- The doubling of design in Walter Nash's Rhetoric: The wit of persuasion / David Stacey
- Riddling: The dominant rhetorical device in W.H. Auden's "The wanderer" / Peter Verdonk
- "My Shakespeare, rise": Ben Jonson's pronominal choices in "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author" (1623) / Clara Calvo
- Discourse presentation and point of view in "Cheating at canasta" by William Trevor / Mick Short
- Doing and teaching: from Kettle of roses to Language and creative illusion and back again / Michael Toolin
- Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy / Michael Stubbs
- Common language: corpus, creativity and cognition / Ronald Carter
- "Americans don't do irony": cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony / Paul Simpson
- Poem. Defunct address / Robert Cockcroft.