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Joanna Gavins - Reading the Absurd, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Reading the Absurd

Av Joanna Gavins

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Beskrivning
What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these questions. Selected key works in English literature are examined in depth to reveal significant aspects of absurd style. Its analytical approach combines stylistic inquiry with a cognitive perspective on language, literature and reading which sheds new light on the human experience of literary reading.By exploring the literary absurd as a linguistic and experiential phenomena, while at the same time reflecting upon its essential historical and cultural situation, Joanna Gavins brings a new perspective to the absurd aesthetic.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2013-06-27
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 432 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9780748669264
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Professor Joanna Gavins is Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, where she teaches courses in cognitive linguistics, stylistics, and ecolinguistics. She is the author of Poetry in the Mind: The Cognition of Contemporary Poetic Style (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Reading the Absurd (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and Text World Theory: An Introduction (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

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The absurd is arguably one of the most significant literary genres of the second half of the 20th century and as a genre it has received plenty of scholarly attention from literary scholars. Over the years, the features of absurd drama have received some attention from stylisticians, but Gavins’s monograph constitutes the first comprehensive stylistic study of absurd narrative prose. She employs a variety of stylistic models to analyse this genre… I was impressed to see how Gavins uses the framework in tandem with so many other stylistic models, cognitive and traditional.

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