Reading the Absurd

AvJoanna Gavins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these questions. Selected key works in English literature are examined in depth to reveal significant aspects of absurd style. Its analytical approach combines stylistic inquiry with a cognitive perspective on language, literature and reading which sheds new light on the human experience of literary reading.By exploring the literary absurd as a linguistic and experiential phenomena, while at the same time reflecting upon its essential historical and cultural situation, Joanna Gavins brings a new perspective to the absurd aesthetic.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:432 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748669264

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Joanna Gavins is Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. Joanna’s publications include Poetry in the Mind (EUP, 2020), Reading the Absurd (EUP, 2013) and Text World Theory: An Introduction (EUP, 2007). She is also co-editor of World Building: Discourse in the Mind (2016) and Cognitive Poetics in Practice (2003). She has published widely on stylistics, cognitive poetics, literary absurdism and contemporary poetry, and has presented her work around the world.

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The absurd is arguably one of the most significant literary genres of the second half of the 20th century and as a genre it has received plenty of scholarly attention from literary scholars. Over the years, the features of absurd drama have received some attention from stylisticians, but Gavins’s monograph constitutes the first comprehensive stylistic study of absurd narrative prose. She employs a variety of stylistic models to analyse this genre… I was impressed to see how Gavins uses the framework in tandem with so many other stylistic models, cognitive and traditional.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 The Literary Absurd, THE ABSURD IN PHILOSOPHY, THE ABSURD IN LITERARY CRITICISMA NEW APPROACH, READERS OF THE ABSURD; 2IDENTIFYING THE ABSURD, CATEGORIES AND CATEGORISATION,CONTEXT, COMMUNITY AND SITUATED CONCEPTS, A CLINE OF EXPERIMENTALISM, WRITING ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ABSURD,READING ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ABSURD, BUILDING ABSURD WORLDS, EXPERIMENTING WITH ABSURD WORLDS,HUMOUR AND THE ABSURD, THE LITERARY ABSURD, SO FAR; 3 ABSURD MINDS, A SINGULARLY MASCULINE PHENOMENON?, CHARACTER-BUILDING, READING OTHER PEOPLE’S MINDS, VERSIONS OF UNRELIABILITY, ESTRANGING MINDS, THE LITERARY ABSURD, SO FAR; 4 ABSURD FICTIONS, ABSURD WORLD-BUILDING REVISITED, ABSURD LANDSCAPES AND EMOTIONAL RESONANCE, TIME, SPACE, AND FICTIONALITY, MIXING GENRES, MIXING MODES, THE LITERARY ABSURD, SO FAR; 5 ABSURD VERSES, THE STYLISTICS OF ABSURD PROSE FICTION, READING THE ABSURD IN PROSE FICTION,READING THE ABSURD IN POETRY, STYLISTIC FAMILY RESEMBLANCES ACROSS POETIC TEXTS,TOWARDS A STYLISTICS OF ABSURD POETRY, THE LITERARY ABSURD, SO FAR; REFERENCES