Author: Dolores M. Burton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292771487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Shakespeare’s Grammatical Style is the first full-scale, systematic study using an examination of Shakespeare’s syntax as a key to the interpretation of his work. Dolores M. Burton presents information on the application of linguistic and statistical techniques to the description and analysis of style, and she has applied the insights and techniques of the major schools of linguistic inquiry, including those of London and Prague. Just as studies of imagery and vocabulary have aided interpretations of the plays, so an examination of the grammatical features of Shakespeare’s language indicates that they, too, perform a poetic and dramatic function. For example, noun modifiers like possessives and definite articles yield insights into a speaker’s point of view or subtly aid in defining the fictional world of the plays. With respect to stylistic development, Shakespeare’s handling of word order moved from a concentration of dislocated sentences and clause constituents to greater emphasis on varied and frequent permutations in nominal and verbal phrases. A computer-generated concordance of function words facilitated the study of syntactic features, which included an examination of formal aspects of diction, nominal group structure, the function and frequency of relative clauses, and the classification of sentences by mood and type. Several problems associated with quantitative and linguistic studies of a full-length literary work are discussed and exemplified. Style itself is defined mathematically as a propositional function S(A), and from this definition stylistic parameters are derived by correlating critical notions like fictional world, point of view, and characterization with differences in the syntax of the two plays.
Shakespeare's Grammatical Style
Author: Dolores M. Burton
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292771487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Shakespeare’s Grammatical Style is the first full-scale, systematic study using an examination of Shakespeare’s syntax as a key to the interpretation of his work. Dolores M. Burton presents information on the application of linguistic and statistical techniques to the description and analysis of style, and she has applied the insights and techniques of the major schools of linguistic inquiry, including those of London and Prague. Just as studies of imagery and vocabulary have aided interpretations of the plays, so an examination of the grammatical features of Shakespeare’s language indicates that they, too, perform a poetic and dramatic function. For example, noun modifiers like possessives and definite articles yield insights into a speaker’s point of view or subtly aid in defining the fictional world of the plays. With respect to stylistic development, Shakespeare’s handling of word order moved from a concentration of dislocated sentences and clause constituents to greater emphasis on varied and frequent permutations in nominal and verbal phrases. A computer-generated concordance of function words facilitated the study of syntactic features, which included an examination of formal aspects of diction, nominal group structure, the function and frequency of relative clauses, and the classification of sentences by mood and type. Several problems associated with quantitative and linguistic studies of a full-length literary work are discussed and exemplified. Style itself is defined mathematically as a propositional function S(A), and from this definition stylistic parameters are derived by correlating critical notions like fictional world, point of view, and characterization with differences in the syntax of the two plays.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292771487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Shakespeare’s Grammatical Style is the first full-scale, systematic study using an examination of Shakespeare’s syntax as a key to the interpretation of his work. Dolores M. Burton presents information on the application of linguistic and statistical techniques to the description and analysis of style, and she has applied the insights and techniques of the major schools of linguistic inquiry, including those of London and Prague. Just as studies of imagery and vocabulary have aided interpretations of the plays, so an examination of the grammatical features of Shakespeare’s language indicates that they, too, perform a poetic and dramatic function. For example, noun modifiers like possessives and definite articles yield insights into a speaker’s point of view or subtly aid in defining the fictional world of the plays. With respect to stylistic development, Shakespeare’s handling of word order moved from a concentration of dislocated sentences and clause constituents to greater emphasis on varied and frequent permutations in nominal and verbal phrases. A computer-generated concordance of function words facilitated the study of syntactic features, which included an examination of formal aspects of diction, nominal group structure, the function and frequency of relative clauses, and the classification of sentences by mood and type. Several problems associated with quantitative and linguistic studies of a full-length literary work are discussed and exemplified. Style itself is defined mathematically as a propositional function S(A), and from this definition stylistic parameters are derived by correlating critical notions like fictional world, point of view, and characterization with differences in the syntax of the two plays.
Shakespearean Sentences
Author: John Porter Houston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807113998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807113998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Shakespeare's Language
Author: Frank Kermode
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374527741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374527741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.
Shakespeare's Language
Author: Keith Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315303062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"In Shakespeare's Language, Keith Johnson offers an overview of the rich and dynamic history of the reception and study of Shakespeare's language from his death right up to the present. The historical approach provides a comprehensive overview, plotting the attitudes towards Shakespeare's language, as well as a history of its study. This approach reveals how different cultural, literary and linguistic climates have moulded these attitudes and reflects changing linguistic climates. Shakespeare's Language is therefore not only an essential guide to the language of Shakespeare, but offers crucial insights to broader approaches to language as a whole"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315303062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"In Shakespeare's Language, Keith Johnson offers an overview of the rich and dynamic history of the reception and study of Shakespeare's language from his death right up to the present. The historical approach provides a comprehensive overview, plotting the attitudes towards Shakespeare's language, as well as a history of its study. This approach reveals how different cultural, literary and linguistic climates have moulded these attitudes and reflects changing linguistic climates. Shakespeare's Language is therefore not only an essential guide to the language of Shakespeare, but offers crucial insights to broader approaches to language as a whole"--
Shakespeare and Language
Author: Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539005
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539005
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher Description
Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language
Author: Mireille Ravassat
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441184279
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441184279
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This 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.
4 by Pelevin
Author: Viktor Pelevin
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"The literary voice of the post-Soviet generation." --The New York Times
Shakespeare's Late Style
Author: Russ McDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays of this period, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, as well as Shakespeare's part in the collaborations with John Fletcher (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen), exhibit a challenging verse style - verbally condensed, metrically and syntactically sophisticated, both conversational and highly wrought. In Shakespeare's Late Style, McDonald anatomizes the components of this late style, illustrating in a series of topically organized chapters the contribution of such features as ellipsis, grammatical suspension, and various forms of repetition. Resisting the sentimentality that frequently attends discussion of an artist's 'late' period, Shakespeare's Late Style shows how the poetry of the last plays reveals their creator's ambivalent attitude towards art, language, men and women, the theatre, and his own professional career.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
When Shakespeare gave up tragedy around 1607 and turned to the new form we call romance or tragicomedy, he created a distinctive poetic idiom that often bewildered audiences and readers. The plays of this period, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, as well as Shakespeare's part in the collaborations with John Fletcher (Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen), exhibit a challenging verse style - verbally condensed, metrically and syntactically sophisticated, both conversational and highly wrought. In Shakespeare's Late Style, McDonald anatomizes the components of this late style, illustrating in a series of topically organized chapters the contribution of such features as ellipsis, grammatical suspension, and various forms of repetition. Resisting the sentimentality that frequently attends discussion of an artist's 'late' period, Shakespeare's Late Style shows how the poetry of the last plays reveals their creator's ambivalent attitude towards art, language, men and women, the theatre, and his own professional career.
The Development of Shakespeare's Rhetoric
Author: Stefan Daniel Keller
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3772083242
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3772083242
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Shakespeare's Styles
Author: Philip Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521616942
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Shakespeare scholars give an account of particularly important or interesting features of Shakespeare's use of language.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521616942
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Shakespeare scholars give an account of particularly important or interesting features of Shakespeare's use of language.