Style in the Renaissance: language and ideology in early modern England
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1. Verfasser: Canning, Patricia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Continuum International Pub. 2012
Schriftenreihe:Advances in stylistics
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Acknowledgements; Introduction: In the Beginning was the Word; Chapter 1: Constructing Plausible Stories: Ideology, Conceptual Integration Theory and the Politics of Representation in George Herbert's 'JESU'; Chapter 2: 'A Deed Without a Name': Murder and the Linguistics of Agency in Shakespeare's Macbeth; Chapter 3: 'Bit-Part' Actors: Metonymy in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's The Changeling; Chapter 4: Picturing Words: Ekphrasis and the Word-as-Image in Early Modern Poetry; Chapter 5: Conclusion: 'Being Nothing': The Value of the W/word; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Within the historical literary genre, stylistics is widely applicable but as yet under deployed. This book acts as a showcase for the range of analysis possible. Although the analytic focus within the genre has traditionally been on literary criticism, stylistics has much to offer. Bringing together text and context, Patricia Canning synthesizes stylistic models with literary theory and critical theory. The historical and contextual focus throughout the book is on religious, political and ideological issues that animated and defined Reformation England. Each chapter interrogates the dichotomous
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