By Geoffrey Leech
Over a interval of over 40 years, Geoffrey Leech has made amazing contributions to the sector of literary stylistics, utilizing the interaction among linguistic shape and literary functionality as a key to the ‘mystery’ of the way a textual content involves be invested with inventive capability.
In this e-book, seven past papers and articles, learn formerly simply through a limited viewers, were introduced together with 4 new chapters, the full quantity displaying a continuity of technique throughout a interval whilst all too frequently literary and linguistic experiences have seemed to flow additional aside.
Leech units the concept that of ‘foregrounding’ (also often called defamiliarization) on the middle of the interaction among shape and interpretation. via sensible and insightful exam of ways poems, performs and prose works produce certain that means, he counteracts the ‘flight from the textual content’ that has characterised considering language and literature within the final thirty years, while the reaction of the reader, instead of the features and that means capability of the textual content itself, were given undue prominence.
The booklet offers an enlightening research of recognized (as good as much less recognized) texts of significant writers of the earlier, together with Keats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf.
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Bateson (for the critics) and R. Fowler (for the linguists) in the pages of Essays in Criticism, 1967–8,3 a dispute sparked off by a review in that journal of Fowler’s volume Essays on Style and Language. My aim here will be to argue that the linguist–critic disputes over the linguistic analysis of literary texts have resulted from false assumptions, by members of both parties, about the theoretical relation between the two disciplines. I shall try to dispel this confusion, and to clarify the way in which linguistics may be said to contribute to the study of literature, by addressing myself to the following questions: (a) What is the nature of literary critical statements about a literary text?
Obviously these questions relate to the distinction between fiction and actuality. But it is not suggested that the reader is obliged to supply a fictional context: the option of fiction and non-fiction is left open. The reader may decide to interpret ‘I’ and ‘you’ as author and reader respectively, as other ‘real’ people, or as fictional creations. qxd 5/27/08 11:09 AM Page 34 Language in Literature who am writing this poem’ (Dylan Thomas himself) and ‘you who are reading it’. But this in turn presupposes another interpretation, in which ‘I’ stands for Christ and ‘you’ for those who partake in the Lord’s Supper.
My aim here will be to argue that the linguist–critic disputes over the linguistic analysis of literary texts have resulted from false assumptions, by members of both parties, about the theoretical relation between the two disciplines. I shall try to dispel this confusion, and to clarify the way in which linguistics may be said to contribute to the study of literature, by addressing myself to the following questions: (a) What is the nature of literary critical statements about a literary text? (b) What is the nature of linguistic statements about a literary text?