Demonstrates that the approaches of literary linguistics extend to the many influences outside it—history, culture, or politics—that contribute to our understanding of language
The Text & Beyond: Essays in Literary Linguistics is a collection of suggestive models for those interested in using the tools of linguistics to meet the aims of literary criticism and theory. Only very recently have linguists and literary scholars come to recognize that their goals are compatible.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsText and ContextThe Contextualization of Linguistic CriticismBERNSTEINCYNTHIA GOLDINPatternLexico-Syntactic Cohesion in Creeley's “I Know a Man”CHISHOLMWILLIAM S.Anaphoric and Cataphoric Reference in Dickens's: Our Mutual Friend and James's Tbe Golden BowlCHILTON CURRYMARY JANEComparison and Synthesis: Marianne Moore's Natural and Unnatural TaxonomiesMONROEMELISSAVoiceAppropriated Voices in Gordon Weaver's: Eight Corners of the WorldBERNSTEINCYNTHIA GOLDINCAMPBELLEWINCScript Theory, Perspective, and Message in Narrative: The Case of “Mi suicidio”TOLLIVERJOYCEConversationConversational Style and the Form-Meaning Link in Literary AnalysisNOGUCHIREI R.Conversation and the Fitzgeralds: Conflict or Collaboration?ELLERBYJANET M.Language and GenderRosario Castellanos and the New Essay: Writing It Like a WomanPARHAMMARY COMEZ“Policewoman,” Male Dominance, and the Cooperative PrincipleFRAZERJUNE M.FRAZERTIMOTHY C.Language and PowerThe Language of Power and Powerlessness: Verbal Combat in the Plays of Tennessee WilliamsWILHELMINANCY O.Dialects of Power: The Two-Faced NarrativeHOHNEKAREN A.Language and CultureLiterary Data and Linguistic Analysis: The Example of Modern German Immigrant Worker LiteratureFENNELLB. A.“What a Parrot Talks”: The Janus Nature of Anglo-Irish WritingBERNSTEINMASHEY“You gone have to learn to talk right”: Linguistic Deference and Regional Dialect in Harry Crews's BodyJOHNSTONEBARBARAContributorsIndex
Cynthia Goldin Bernstein is Professor Emeritus in the English Department at The University of Memphis. She is coeditor of Language Variety in the South Revisited.
