Language and Verbal Art Revisited - Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature - Donna R. Miller
Private pleasure, public discourse: refl ections on engaging with literature
Language and Verbal Art Revisited - Linguistic Approaches to the Study of Literature - Donna R. Miller
Ruqaiya Hasan† [+]
Macquarie University
Ruqaiya Hasan, who died in 2015, was a professor of linguistics who taught and held visiting positions at various universities in England. Her last appointment was at Macquarie University, Australia, from where she retired as Emeritus Professor in 1994. Throughout her career she researched and published widely in the areas of verbal art, culture, context and text, text and texture, lexicogrammar and semantic variation.
Read her obituary here
Description
Hasan’s paper has been deliberately positioned fi rst in the volume, as it intimately addresses the most vital theoretical and methodological issues concerning the book’s general topic, and does this in such a way that the paper also serves as an essential background to the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)-based contributions which follow, but not solely. She begins with underlining the complexity of the nature of the activity of engaging with literature, admitting that the multiplicity of resources that supports the creation of a literary artifact also implies that there will necessarily be many different ways of doing this.