Stylistics and Shakespeare's language : transdisciplinary approaches /

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Imprint:London : New York : Continuum, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Advances in stylistics
Advances in stylistics.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099155
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Other authors / contributors:Ravassat, Mireille.
Culpeper, Jonathan, 1966-
ISBN:9781441164254
1441164251
9781441184276
1441184279
9781441127952
144112795X
9781441171726
144117172X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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'
Other form:Print version: Ravassat, Mireille. Stylistics and shakespeare's language. London ; New York : Continuum, 2011 9781441127952
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper; Chapter 1 'Strange deliveries': Contextualizing Shakespeare's First Citations in the OED Giles Goodland; Chapter 2 Shakespeare's Vocabulary: Did it Dwarf All Others? Ward E.Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza; Chapter 3 A New Kind of Dictionary for Shakespeare's Plays: an Immodest Proposal1 Jonathan Culpeper; Chapter 4 'If I break time': Shakespearean Line Endings on the Page and the Stage Peter Kanelos.
  • Chapter 5 Subject-Verb Inversion and Iambic Rhythmin Shakespeare's Dramatic Verse Richard Ingham and Michael Ingham1Chapter 6 Shakespeare's 'Short' Pentameters and the Rhythms of Dramatic Verse Peter Groves; Chapter 7 Wholes and Holes in the Study of Shakespeare's Wordplay Dirk Delabastita1; Chapter 8 'a thing inseparate/Divides more wider than the sky and earth'
  • of Oxymoron in Shakespeare's Sonnets1 Mireille Ravassat; Chapter 9 'Rue with a difference': a Computational Stylistic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Suicide in Hamlet Thomas Anderson and Scott Crossley.
  • Chapter 10 Shakespeare's Sexual Language and Metaphor: a Cognitive-Stylistic Approach José L. Oncins-Martínez1Chapter 11 Cognitive Interplay: How Blending Theory and Cognitive Science Reread Shakespeare1 Amy Cook; Index.