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Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts

Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts

Semino, Elena

Paperback

Series: Textual Explorations

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0582303540
ISBN13: 9780582303546
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 18 1997
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.47 Depth: 8.53
Language: English
Introduces an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds: the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their inter-action with the language of texts. The book demonstrates, through the analysis of British and American poems and non-poetic tetxs, three ways of approaching poetic text worlds, namely as discourse situations, possible-worlds, and mental constructs. Clear and detailed introductions to linguistic theories of definiteness and deixis, possible-world theory and schema theory are included, making the book accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with these frameworks.

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