The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology / / edited by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Michael Toolan.

• Superior document: PALA Papers ; 1
• Author: Poetics and Linguistics Association. International Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Toolan, Michael,; Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa,; Poetics and Linguistics Association. International Conference
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: PALA Papers ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Notes: "The essays published here derive from papers given at the Twenty-Second International Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) at Birmingham in April 2002"--P. [xiii].

The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology explores the multiple ways in which a culture's technological resources shape its literary productions. Literature and style cannot be divorced from the particular technologised culture that sponsors them. This has always been true, as papers here on literature from earlier periods show. But many of the papers focus on contemporary culture, where literature vies for attention with film, the internet, and other multimodal cultural forms. These essays, from an international array of experts, are stylistics-based but not stylistics-bound. They should be of interest to all who are interested in discourse analytic commentaries on how technological horizons, as always, continue to shape the forms and functions of literature and other cultural productions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Donald C. FREEMAN : Preface -- Carmen Rosa CALDAS-COULTHARD & Michael TOOLAN: Introduction -- Part I: The writer's web -- George L. DILLON: Anti-Laokoön: Mixed and Merged Modes of Imagetext on the Web -- Carmen Rosa CALDAS-COULTHARD: Personal Web Pages and the Semiotic Construction of Academic Identities -- Ulf CRONQUIST: Hypertext, Prosthetics and the Netocracy: Posthumanist Aspects of Jeanette Winterson's The PowerBook -- Rosario CABALLERO: The Influence of Hypertext on Genre: Exploring Online Book Reviews -- Part II: Textual and technological transitions -- Anita NACISCIONE: Visual Representation of Phraseological Metaphor in Discourse: A Cognitive Approach -- Ken NAKAGAWA: A Structural Analysis of Wordworth's 'Daffodils' -- Robert COCKCROFT: Seeing the Sea: Deixis and the Perceptions of Melville's Reader -- Anna Elizabeth BALOCCO: Narratives of Transgression: Challenging the Boundaries of Competent Discourses -- Mirjana BONAČIĆ: The Translator's Craft as a Cross-Cultural Discourse -- Marika SCHWAIGER: Illustrated Literature: Future Style, Fertile Spirit, or Futile Waste? -- Part III: Changing cultures of report -- Geoff HALL: Who said that? Who wrote that? Reporting, Representation, and the Linguistics of Writing -- Joe BRAY: 'Print Culture' and the Language of the 18th-Century Novel -- Susan HUNSTON: Truth and Lies: The Construction of Factuality in a Television Documentary -- Part IV: Corpus-enabled stylistics -- Donald E. HARDY: Technology and Stylistics: The Web Connection -- Michi SHIINA: How Playwrights Construct Their Dramatic Worlds: A Corpus-based Study of Vocatives in Early Modern English Comedies -- Masahiro HORI: Collocational Style in the Two Narratives of Bleak House : A Corpus-based Analysis -- Bibliography -- Index.