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Linguistics Meets Literature

eBook - More on the Grammar of Emily Dickinson, ISSN

Bauer, Matthias/Beck, Sigrid/Bade, Nadine et al
Erschienen am 08.06.2020, Auflage: 1/2020
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ISBN/EAN: 9783110642810
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 262 S.
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Beschreibung

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 Dickinsons 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 Dickinsons poetry but of linguistically complex literary texts in general.

Autorenportrait

Matthias Bauer andSigrid Beck, University of Tübingen, Germany.

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