Language and Verbal Art Revisited - Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature - Donna R. Miller
Introduction
Language and Verbal Art Revisited - Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature - Donna R. Miller
Donna R. Miller [+]
University of Bologna
Donna R. Miller holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna, where she heads the Research Centre for Linguistic-Cultural Studies (CeSLiC). Her research has focused on register analysis in institutional text types, her corpus-assisted investigations exploring the grammar of evaluation in terms of APPRAISAL SYSTEMS. Recently she has been investigating the Hasanian model of ‘verbal art’. She is co-author of Language and Verbal Art Revisited (with Monica Turci, Equinox Publishing, 2007).
Monica Turci [+]
University of Bologna
Monica Turci is Assistant Professor of English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of the University of Bologna. Her publications include the volume, Approaching That Perfect Edge. A Study of the Metafictional Writings of Michael Ondaatje 1967-1982, 2001, and articles on the relation between language and literature: “Recasting Translation and Migration: Les Murray’s Translation from the Natural World”, 2004; “‘Remembering in translation’: Language and memory in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation”, 2004; and “Questions of Style in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”.
Description
What we’d like to do in this introduction to the volume is to, firstly, give a general schematic overview which very briefl y traces some of the major approaches to literature that have played a role in bringing us to where we are today regarding the linguistic analysis of verbal art. At the same time, we will make clear where we stand on the disputes surrounding that approach and argue the case for such analysis as a socio-cultural practice, or a special brand of ‘stylistics’.