Stylistics and Shakespeare's language : transdisciplinary approaches

Author(s)

• Ravassat, Mireille
• Culpeper, Jonathan

Bibliographic Information

Stylistics and Shakespeare's language : transdisciplinary approaches

editors, Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper

（Advances in stylistics）

Continuum, c2011

• : hardback
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hardback ISBN 9781441127952

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.

Table of Contents

• List 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 cognitivestylistic approach Jose L. Oncins Martinez
• 11. Cognitive Interplay: cognitive science meets theatre and performance theory Amy Cook
• Bibliography
• Index.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781441171726

Description

Moving across Shakespeare studies, language studies and linguistics, this book develops a coherent analysis of the stylistics of Shakespeare's language. 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 a 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 broad ranges of readers, from undergraduates and postgraduates to poetry and theatre lovers alike. "Advances in Stylistics" provides student resources and research material in cutting-edge stylistics. It forgoes traditional boundaries to encompass the study of both literary and non-literary texts, and covers exciting new developments in the field. It takes a broad view of stylistics as the practice of using linguistic methodologies and analytical frameworks to facilitate the analysis of texts of all genres and types, for the purpose of explaining why we interpret texts in the way that we do.

Table of Contents

• List 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 Jose L. Oncins Martinez
• 11. Cognitive Interplay: cognitive science meets theatre and performance theory Amy Cook
• Bibliography
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BB06161218
• ISBN:
  • 9781441127952
  • 9781441171726
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 273 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 822.33
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Language
  • LCSH : Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Literary style
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04996411