The Text and Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics
The Text and Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics
edited by Cynthia Bernstein
University of Alabama Press, 1997 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8935-2 | Paper: 978-0-8173-0699-1 Library of Congress Classification P302.5.T49 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 808.0014
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Demonstrates that the approaches of literary linguistics extend to the many influences outside it—history, culture, or politics—that contribute to our understanding of language
The Text & Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics is a collection of suggestive models for those interested in using the tools of linguistics to meet the aims of literary criticism and theory. Only very recently have linguists and literary scholars come to recognize that their goals are compatible.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Cynthia Goldin Bernstein is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at The University of Memphis. She is coeditor of Language Variety in the South Revisited.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1.
Text and Context
The Contextualization of Linguistic Criticism
BERNSTEIN,
CYNTHIA GOLDIN
Part 2.
Pattern
Lexico-Syntactic Cohesion in Creeley's “I Know a Man”
CHISHOLM,
WILLIAM S.
Anaphoric and Cataphoric Reference in Dickens's: Our Mutual Friend and James's Tbe Golden Bowl
CHILTON CURRY,
MARY JANE
Comparison and Synthesis: Marianne Moore's Natural and Unnatural Taxonomies
MONROE,
MELISSA
Part 3.
Voice
Appropriated Voices in Gordon Weaver's: Eight Corners of the World
BERNSTEIN,
CYNTHIA GOLDIN
CAMPBELL,
EWINC
Script Theory, Perspective, and Message in Narrative: The Case of “Mi suicidio”
TOLLIVER,
JOYCE
Part 4.
Conversation
Conversational Style and the Form-Meaning Link in Literary Analysis
NOGUCHI,
REI R.
Conversation and the Fitzgeralds: Conflict or Collaboration?
ELLERBY,
JANET M.
Part 5.
Language and Gender
Rosario Castellanos and the New Essay: Writing It Like a Woman
PARHAM,
MARY COMEZ
“Policewoman,” Male Dominance, and the Cooperative Principle
FRAZER,
JUNE M.
FRAZER,
TIMOTHY C.
Part 6.
Language and Power
The Language of Power and Powerlessness: Verbal Combat in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
WILHELMI,
NANCY O.
Dialects of Power: The Two-Faced Narrative
HOHNE,
KAREN A.
Part 7.
Language and Culture
Literary Data and Linguistic Analysis: The Example of Modern German Immigrant Worker Literature
FENNELL,
B. A.
“What a Parrot Talks”: The Janus Nature of Anglo-Irish Writing
BERNSTEIN,
MASHEY
“You gone have to learn to talk right”: Linguistic Deference and Regional Dialect in Harry Crews's Body