Binding: Paperback
Description: Over a period of over forty years Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the mystery of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. In this book seven earlier papers and articles read previously only by a restricted audience have been brought together with four new chapters the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. Leech sets the concept of foregrounding (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems plays and prose works produce special meaning he counteracts the flight from the text that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years when the response of the reader rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself have been given undue prominence. The book provides an enlightening analysis of well - known (as well as less well - known) texts of great writers of the past including Keats Shelley Samuel Johnson Shaw Dylan Thomas and Virginia Woolf.
Title: Language In Literature Style And Foregrounding
Author(s): Leech Geoffrey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780582051096
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 8/15/2008
Series: Textual Explorations
Category: Literary Theory