Point of View (Routledge Revivals)

Point of View (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Susan L. Ehrlich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317674847

The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse the discourse structure of texts; from the perspective of literary studies, to explain certain non-linguistic aspects of the texts in terms of linguistic form. This study therefore aims to provide a balanced and sufficiently comprehensive account of the relationship between linguistic form and point of view. It will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in linguistics, and literary style.

Routledge Revivals: The Progress of Romance (1986)

Routledge Revivals: The Progress of Romance (1986)
Author: Jean Radford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1315447703

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays collected here reflect diverse positions and methods in the current debate: sociological, psychoanalytic and literary. Some focus more on texts or readers, others concentrate on theoretical questions about narrative or ideology. All of the essays, however, view popular forms and their uses historical in historical context — rejecting the notion they are a contaminated by-product of industrialism.

The Anatomy of the Novel (Routledge Revivals)

The Anatomy of the Novel (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Marjorie Boulton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317936353

First published in 1975, this title provides an introduction to the study of the novel. Marjorie Boulton deals systematically with the major elements of plot, character, authorial conventions, narrative structure, and dialogue and distinguishes different types of fiction. The emphasis is on the mainstream novel, with examples and arguments illustrated by quotations from five classics. Of particular value to students of English Literature, this reissue aims to help the reader ‘not only to read novels more discerningly and to discuss them more profitably, but also to relish the reading more’.

Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)

Realist Fiction and the Strolling Spectator (Routledge Revivals)
Author: John Rignall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-01-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131762629X

The classic realist text has long been derided by post-structuralist critics as an unsophisticated and reactionary form. In this study, first published in 1992, John Rignall makes a powerful case for the rehabilitation of realism as a self-aware and reflexive genre. Using the novels of Scott, Balzac, Dickens, George Eliot, Flaubert, James, Ford and Conrad, Rignall argues for an understanding of realism through the recurrent figure of the flâneur. The flâneur is the strolling spectator whose problematic vision both of and in the novel makes him the representative figure of the realist text. A significant contribution to the field, this title will be of particular view to students of realism, literary theory, and comparative literature.

Jonathan Swift (Routledge Revivals)

Jonathan Swift (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Alan Downie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317605799

First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift’s political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works. With its emphasis on Swift as a political writer, the title offers a revision of the prevailing view of Swift’s politics and its application in the study of his works. Alan Downie argues that in terms of the party politics of the day Swift is neither a Whig nor Tory. Swift thought of himself as an ‘Old Whig’, and said he was ‘of the old Whig principles, without the modern articles and refinements’. Downie shows how Swift’s writings consistently make political points about society’s deviation from an ideal. As Swift’s views on morality, religion and politics are so closely linked, an understanding of his political ideas is vital; this reissue provides a detailed analysis of this aspect of Swift’s writings and views, and as such will be of great interest to any students researching his satire.

Genre (Routledge Revivals)

Genre (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Heather Dubrow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317671937

This study, first published in 1982, explores and demonstrates the ways in which an awareness of literary genre can illuminate works as diverse as Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ and Berryman’s Sonnets. The first book to offer a historical survey of genre theory, it traces the history from the Greek rhetoricians to such contemporary figures as Frye and Todorov. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways in which comments on genre reflect underlying aesthetic attitudes.

Routledge Revivals: Style and Stylistics (1969)

Routledge Revivals: Style and Stylistics (1969)
Author: Graham Hough
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351261592

First published in 1969, Professor Hough’s work examines stylistics – the bridge between linguistics and literary criticism. The book gives a short survey of stylistics from a literary point of view, and tries to answer the question of how much stylistics contributes to the understanding of literature. It brings together continental European work on stylistics and Anglo-American critical writing which has a similar purpose though usually under a different name. In calling the attention of the student of literature to trains of thought with which he is not generally familiar, and with detailed analysis on different literary styles and methods, Professor Hough provides important critical insights.

Routledge Revivals: Language in Tanzania (1980)

Routledge Revivals: Language in Tanzania (1980)
Author: Edgar C. Polomé
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351391844

Originally published in 1980, Language in Tanzania presents a comprehensive overview of the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in Eastern Africa. Using extensive research carried out by an interdisciplinary group of international and local scholars, the survey also covers Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. The book represents one of the most in-depth sociolinguistic studies carried out on this region at this time. It provides basic linguistic data necessary to policy-makers, administrators, and educators, and will be of interest to those researching the formulation and execution of language policy.

Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)

Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)
Author: K T Fann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136646094

J. L. Austin (1911-1960) exercised in Post-war Oxford an intellectual authority similar to that of Wittgenstein in Cambridge. Although he completed no books of his own and published only seven papers, Austin became through lectures and talks one of the acknowledged leaders in what is called ‘Oxford philosophy’ or ‘ordinary language philosophy’. Few would dispute that among analytic philosophers Austin stands out as a great and original philosophical genius. Three volumes of his writing, published after his death, have become classics in analytical philosophy: Philosophical Papers; Sense and Sensibilia; and How to Do Things with Words. First published in 1969, this book is a collection of critical essays on Austin’s philosophy written by well-known philosophers, many of whom knew Austin personally. A number of essays included were especially written for this volume, but the majority have appeared previously in various journals or books, not all easy to obtain.

Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)

Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Israel Scheffler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136961623

Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond the Letter offers a consecutive study of these features from a philosphical point of view, providing analyses of each and treating their relations to one another. Addressed to the fundamental task of logical and semantic explanation, the book employs an inscriptional methodology in the attempt to avoid prevalent forms of question-begging, and, further, in the conviction that sparseness of assumption often reveals points of theoretical interest irrespective of methodolgical preference. The author distinguishes and analyses several varieties of ambiguity, developing new semantic notions in the process; recasts the philosophical treatment of vagueness in the light of recent criticisms of analyticity; discusses the bearing of vagueness on logic; and provides a systematic critique of major recent interpretations of metaphor, developing a revised version of contextualism.