Language, literature, and critical practice: Ways of analysing text (The Interface series) - Hardcover

Birch, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415031214 ISBN 13: 9780415031219

Publisher: Routledge, 1989

Synopsis

Contemporary, philosophical, cultural, political and sociological influences have had a crucial impact on the way in which we approach and understand texts. Language, Literature and Critical Practice examines the major consequences of these influences on textual analysis and the role of language within it, and provides an overview of developments in language-centered criticism in the twentieth century.

Using a wide-ranging variety of texts, the author reviews and evaluates an equally wide-ranging variety of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between "actual" and "virtual" words in critical practice and theories of language, and elucidating the critically important practice of how texts mean.

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Review

`Paves the way for a politically more aware and more responsible stylistics, and as such makes essential reading for anybody interested in the practice of literary criticism, and more particularly, in the role of ideology at the interface of language and literature.' - Journal of Literary Semantics

`Accessible style and presentation ... extensive bibliography.' - Poetics Today

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415031214
• ISBN 13: 9780415031219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214