Language, Literature and Critical Practice: Ways of Analysing Text (Interface Series)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Series editor’s introduction to the Interface series......Page 11
Foreword......Page 15
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Text analyses......Page 17
Preface......Page 19
Language as showing......Page 23
The play of meanings......Page 25
Interdiscourse/Intertextualities......Page 32
The negotiation of meanings......Page 34
Feminist criticism......Page 36
Language, text, coherence......Page 38
Classifications, realities and textual analysis......Page 43
Politically committed analysis......Page 47
Textually constructed realities......Page 51
Relevance......Page 52
Scientificity......Page 62
Formalism/Structuralism......Page 63
Idealization/Actualization......Page 64
Scientific fictions......Page 67
Structures and meanings......Page 68
Literature as moral discipline......Page 74
Literature as traditional orthodoxy......Page 80
Text-in-itself relevance......Page 82
‘Reading with’ the text......Page 94
Centres of text and fixed points of meaning......Page 100
Language-aware analysis......Page 105
Literary paradigms......Page 109
‘Entering’ the text......Page 112
Language, text, context......Page 116
Language, text, communication......Page 123
Per Amica Silentia Lunae......Page 124
Literary language and literariness......Page 127
Stimulus, response, function......Page 134
Structural relations of meaning......Page 139
Reading and rereading......Page 145
Myths, structures and archetypes......Page 146
Situation and culture-dependent meanings......Page 148
Generativism and textual analysis......Page 150
Functionalism and textual analysis......Page 155
Textlinguistics and discourse......Page 161
Critical linguistics......Page 166
Critical linguistics: a sample text analysis......Page 172
Afterword......Page 183
Notes......Page 186
Bibliography......Page 192
Index......Page 221