Britain and Britishness in G.B. Shaw's plays : a linguistic perspective

著者

• Ajtony, Zsuzsanna

書誌事項

Britain and Britishness in G.B. Shaw's plays : a linguistic perspective

by Zsuzsanna Ajtony

Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-244) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Ethnicity, in general, and Britishness, in its specific insular version, forms a perpetual theme of G. B. Shaw's most well known plays. The main body of the plays analysed in this book reveal a series of cultural and ethnic differences as the plays' constitutive elements, comprising oppositions on the basis of which the plays are structured. Arms and the Man, The Devil's Disciple, John Bull's Other Island and Caesar and Cleopatra are works in which ethnicity is directly present, as a structuring element. The extension of the viewpoint to the more inclusive framework of Anglo-Saxon attitudes also allows for a play like Pygmalion to be included in the list of works discussed in the book.Britain and Britishness in G. B. Shaw's Plays will be of considerable interest to those concerned with the interdisciplinary field of language and literature. It offers a fresh insight into the Shavian oeuvre by highlighting the aspects of ethnic identity and paradox from a linguistic perspective. The book offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the Shavian plays as it integrates different fields of discourse analysis, cultural pragmatics and micro-sociolinguistics.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB11083521
• ISBN:
  • 9781443840927
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Newcastle
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 247 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 822.912
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : National characteristics, British, in literature
  • LCSH : Ethnicity in literature