Language, literature and critical practice : ways of analysing text

Author(s)

• Birch, David (David Ian)

Bibliographic Information

Language, literature and critical practice : ways of analysing text

David Birch

（Interface）

Routledge, 1989

• : pbk.

Note

Bibliography: p. [176]-205

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk. ISBN 9780415029414

Description

Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates a broad range of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between `actual' and `virtual' worlds in critical practice.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 How texts mean
• Chapter 2 Language, literature and scientific fictions
• Chapter 3 Reading literary texts
• Chapter 4 Reading texts closely
• Chapter 5 The linguistics of text

Volume

ISBN 9780415031219

Description

Examines the major consequences of contemporary philosophical, cultural, political and sociological influences upon textual analysis, and the role of the language within it. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of literary criticism, language studies, linguistics and English studies.

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Details

• NCID: BA06659903
• ISBN:
  • 0415031214
  • 0415029414
• LCCN: 88030359
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 214 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P47
  • DC19 : 801/.959
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Criticism, Textual
  • LCSH : Discourse analysis
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA06595254