Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity : : Poetics, Linguistics, History / / edited by Roger D. Sell and Peter Verdonk.

• Superior document: DQR studies in literature, ; 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Sell, Roger D.,; Verdonk, Peter, 1935-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : BRILL,, 1994.; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: DQR studies in literature : ; 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes index.

In recent years there has been an increasing realization that language and literature are, so to speak, socioculturally consubstantial. Accordingly literary scholars and linguists now often define their interests in sociohistorical terms, and the 'lang.-lit.' divide is giving way to shared...

Table of Contents

• Roger D. SELL: Introduction: The new interdisciplinarity. SECTION I Literature as 'special' and 'ordinary'. Henry WIDDOWSON: Old song that will not declare itself: on poetry and the imprecision of meaning. Nils Erik ENKVIST: Context. SECTION II How readers of literature work towards meanings. Peter STOCKWELL: To be or not to be a phagocyte: procedures of reading metaphors. Michael TOOLAN: On recyclings and irony. Adrian PILKINGTON: Against literary reading conventions. Tony BEX: The relevance of genre. SECTION III Writers and readers within sociocultural history. Alison TATE: Bakhtin, addressivity, and the poetics of objectivity. Guy COOK: Contradictory voices: a dialogue between Russian and Western European linguists. Irma TAAVITSAINEN: Characters and English almanac literature: genre developments and intertextuality. Ingrid TIEKEN-BOON VAN OSTADE: Eighteenth-century letters and journals as evidence: studying society through the individual. SECTION IV Literature in the lives of readers. Ineke BOCKTING: Light in August and the issue of unreliability. Willie van PEER: Emotional functions of reading literature. Roger D. SELL: Literary gossip, literary theory, literary pragmatics.