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Linguistics Meets Literature - More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson

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Until recently, collaborative efforts between formal linguistics and literary studies have been relatively sparse; this book is an attempt to bridge this gap and add to the hitherto small pool of studies that combine the two disciplines.
Our study concentrates on Emily Dickinson's poetry, since it displays a highly uncommon and therefore challenging use of language. We argue this to be part of her poetic strategy and consider Dickinson an intuitive linguist: her apparent non-compliance with linguistic rules is a productive exploration of linguistic expression to reveal the flexibility and potential of grammar, leading to complex processes of interpretation. Our study includes a number of in-depth analyses of individual poems, which combine formal linguistic methods and literary scholarship and focus on specific aspects such as ambiguity, reference, and presuppositions. One of our findings concerns the dynamic interpretation of lyrical texts in which the pragmatic step of establishing what a poem means for the reader is postponed to text level.
We provide readers with a tool-box of methods for the formal linguistic analysis not just of Emily Dickinson's poetry but of linguistically complex literary texts in general.

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Matthias Bauer and Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen, Germany.


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Authors Nadine Bade, Matthia Bauer, Matthias Bauer, Sigri Beck, Sigrid Beck, Saskia Brockmann, Saskia et Brockmann, Susanne Riecker, Angelika Zirker
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.01.2022
 
EAN 9783110777475
ISBN 978-3-11-077747-5
No. of pages 254
Dimensions 155 mm x 17 mm x 230 mm
Weight 444 g
Illustrations 9 b/w tbl.
Series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
ISSN
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 329
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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