Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language

Transdisciplinary Approaches

Mireille Ravassat, Jonathan Culpeper

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781441171726
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441164254
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistic Semantics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Mireille Ravassat and Jonathan Culpeper
• Chapter 1 ‘Strange deliveries’: Contextualizing Shakespeare’s First Citations in the OED Giles Goodland
• Chapter 2 Shakespeare’s Vocabulary: Did it Dwarf All Others? Ward E. Y. Elliott and Robert J. Valenza
• Chapter 3 A New Kind of Dictionary for Shakespeare’s Plays: an Immodest Proposal1 Jonathan Culpeper
• Chapter 4 ‘If I break time’: Shakespearean Line Endings on the Page and the Stage Peter Kanelos
• Chapter 5 Subject-Verb Inversion and Iambic Rhythmin Shakespeare’s Dramatic Verse Richard Ingham and Michael Ingham1
• Chapter 6 Shakespeare’s ‘Short’ Pentameters and the Rhythms of Dramatic Verse Peter Groves
• Chapter 7 Wholes and Holes in the Study of Shakespeare’s Wordplay Dirk Delabastita1
• Chapter 8 ‘a thing inseparate/Divides more wider than the sky and earth’ – of Oxymoron in Shakespeare’s Sonnets1 Mireille Ravassat
• Chapter 9 ‘Rue with a difference’: a Computational Stylistic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Suicide in Hamlet Thomas Anderson and Scott Crossley
• Chapter 10 Shakespeare’s Sexual Language and Metaphor: a Cognitive-Stylistic Approach José L. Oncins-Martínez1
• Chapter 11 Cognitive Interplay: How Blending Theory and Cognitive Science Reread Shakespeare1 Amy Cook
• Index