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Literature about language /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shepherd, Valerie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Colección:Interface (London, England)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The human capacity for language : The inheritors by William Golding
  • Linguistic creativity and limitation : 'my sweet old etcetera' by e.e. cummmings
  • Sound and meaning : 'The upper birch-leaves' by Thomas Hardy
  • Making meaning : Susan Sontag's essay 'AIDS and its metaphors' and Eva Salzman's poem 'Time out'
  • The narrative art of language : poetry by Elizabeth Jennings and the short story 'Eveline' from James Joyce's Dubliners
  • Standard and non-standard English : the Dorset poetry of William Barnes, with reference to Tennyson's Lincolnshire monologues and Tom Leonard's Glasgow poems
  • The language of women and men : 'Nervous prostration' by Anna Wickham with particular reference to Jonathan Swift's 'The furniture of a woman's mind'
  • The power of discourse : David Lodge's novel Nice work and poetry by Tom Leonard
  • The signalling of meaning : 'Something for the time being' by Nadine Gordimer.