Titre :	Language in Literature : Style and Foregrounding
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Geoffrey Leech, Auteur
Editeur :	England : Archives Contemporaines
Importance :	222pages
Format :	21 cm.x13cm.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978058205109
Langues :	Français (fre) Langues originales : Français (fre)
Index. décimale :	808 rhétorique et recueils : rhétorique : art et techniques de l'écriture et de l'expression orale. Classer ici le plagiat
Résumé :	Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the 'mystery' of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. Leech sets the concept of 'foregrounding' (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the 'flight from the text' that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence.

Language in Literature : Style and Foregrounding [texte imprimé] / Geoffrey Leech, Auteur . - England : Archives Contemporaines, [s.d.] . - 222pages ; 21 cm.x13cm.
ISSN : 978058205109
Langues : Français (fre) Langues originales : Français (fre)

Index. décimale :

808 rhétorique et recueils : rhétorique : art et techniques de l'écriture et de l'expression orale. Classer ici le plagiat

Résumé :

Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the 'mystery' of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. Leech sets the concept of 'foregrounding' (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the 'flight from the text' that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence.