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OverviewThis innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Mireille Ravassat , Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, Lancaster)Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9781441171726ISBN 10: 144117172 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 04 August 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsList of contributors \ Introduction, Mireille Ravassat & Jonathan Culpeper \ 1. ‘Strange deliveries': contextualising Shakespeare's first citations in the OED Giles Goodland \ 2. Shakespeare's vocabulary: did it dwarf all others? Ward E. Y. Elliott & Robert J. Valenza \ 3. A new kind of dictionary for Shakespeare's plays: an immodest proposal Jonathan Culpeper \ 4. ‘If I break time': Shakespearean line endings on the page and the stage Peter Kanelos \ 5. Subject-verb inversion and iambic rhythm in Shakespeare's dramatic verse Richard Ingham and Michael Ingham \ 6. Shakespeare's ‘short' pentameters and the rhythms of dramatic verse Peter Groves \ 7. Wholes and holes in the study of Shakespeare's wordplay Dirk Delabastita \ 8 ‘a thing inseparate / Divides more wider than the sky and earth' - of oxymoron in Shakespeare's Sonnets Mireille Ravassat \ 9. 'Rue with a difference': a computational stylistic analysis of the rhetoric of suicide in Hamlet Thomas Anderson and Scott Crossley \ 10. Shakespeare's sexual language and metaphor: a cognitive-stylistic approach José L. Oncins Martínez \ 11.Cognitive Interplay: how Blending Theory and cognitive science reread Shakespeare Amy Cook \ Bibliography \ IndexReviewsThis is a book full of fresh and illuminating perspectives and methods. It makes you realize the study of Shakespeare's language is only just beginning. --, A welcome addition to the still relatively meagre output of books on Shakespeare's style. The chapters by different contributors take a fresh and insightful look at vocabulary, metre and rhetoric in the light of recent advances in stylistics. --Katie Wales, Special Professor, School of English, University of Nottingham, UK A welcome addition to the still relatively meagre output of books on Shakespeare's style. The chapters by different contributors take a fresh and insightful look at vocabulary, metre and rhetoric in the light of recent advances in stylistics. Author InformationMireille Ravassat is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Valenciennes University, France Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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