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676018185 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LAL 28 Eb 15 9789027264602 06 10.1075/lal.28 13 2017041501 DG 002 02 01 LAL 02 1569-3112 Linguistic Approaches to Literature 28 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics</TitleWithoutPrefix> 01 lal.28 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/lal.28 1 B01 John Douthwaite Douthwaite, John John Douthwaite University of Genoa 2 B01 Daniela Francesca Virdis Virdis, Daniela Francesca Daniela Francesca Virdis University of Cagliari 3 B01 Elisabetta Zurru Zurru, Elisabetta Elisabetta Zurru University of Genoa 01 eng 246 vii 238 LIT025000 v.2006 DSA 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 06 01 In treating the topic of the <i>landscapes of stylistics</i>, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be only a physical description of the external world. The implication is that texts attempt to produce specific effects on the reader determined by the author’s worldview. Contents and effects, (namely mental and emotional states, behaviours), are thus inseparable. Identifying those effects and how they are produced is an eminently cognitive operation. The chapters analyse a variety of linguistic devices and cognitive mechanisms employed in producing the text and accounting for the effects achieved. Though the majority of the chapters have a cognitive basis, a wide range of methodologies are employed, including ecostylistics, offering cutting-edge theoretical approaches teamed up with close reading. A further crucial feature of this collection is the selection of non-canonical texts, ranging from lesser-known texts in English to significant works in languages other than English, all of which are characterised by important social themes, thus emphasising the importance of critical appreciation as a means of self-empowerment. 05 Landscapes in literary works can be the object of study, and the word landscape can also refer to the many ways of studying them. This wonderful collection of essays demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of human experience with all kinds of landscapes, ranging from the physical environment to the most elusive human sensibilities and emotions. The book also demonstrates the wide variety of approaches that can be taken to making sense of those experiences. Running through and unifying the methodologies is the close analysis of literary texts, coupled with the application of conceptual tools from disciplines, such as pragmatics and cognitive science, essential to making sense of the enormous complexity of meaning in literature. The volume also convinces us that the best stylistic analysis can only be socially responsible, and not just an academic exercise performed by scholars in an ivory tower. Zoltan Kovecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lal.28.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027200020.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027200020.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lal.28.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lal.28.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lal.28.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lal.28.hb.png 10 01 JB code lal.28.ack vii viii 2 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acknowledgements</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lal.28.01dou 1 20 20 Chapter 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;1. Introduction</TitleText> 1 A01 John Douthwaite Douthwaite, John John Douthwaite 2 A01 Daniela Francesca Virdis Virdis, Daniela Francesca Daniela Francesca Virdis 3 A01 Elisabetta Zurru Zurru, Elisabetta Elisabetta Zurru 10 01 JB code lal.28.02wal 21 30 10 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;2. The role of analogy in Charles Dickens&#8217; <i>Pictures from Italy</i></TitleText> 1 A01 Katie Wales Wales, Katie Katie Wales 01 <i>Pictures from Italy</i> (1846) is one of Charles Dickens&#8217; lesser known works. There has been very little critical interest in this travelogue, and no linguistic analysis. In this chapter, I focus on the significant role of analogy in this text: broadly covering similes (<i>like</i>, <i>as</i>); quasi-similes (<i>as if</i>) and comparisons; and defined in cognitive terms as overt &#8220;mapping&#8221; across conceptual domains. I argue for four kinds of analogies at work, each group having different functions, effects and, most importantly, degrees of reader-helpfulness. The overall result is the creation of an Italy that is a rich composition of possible worlds and sub-worlds, corresponding as much to Dickens&#8217; beliefs and fantasies as to actual experience. The analogies are therefore a necessary and important part of the linguistic &#8220;texture&#8221; of the work overall. They raise interesting possibilities for the further exploration of related travelogues and the discourse of tourism more generally. 10 01 JB code lal.28.03sho 31 44 14 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;3. Listing and impressionism in Charles Dickens&#8217;s description of Genoa in <i>Pictures from Italy</i></TitleText> 1 A01 Mick Short Short, Mick Mick Short 01 This chapter examines a subset of representative list constructions in Dickens&#8217;s description of Genoa. Such constructions comprise nearly 20% of the text and those examined in detail are varied in type, long, complex and contain significant deviations from the norm. This linguistic complexity is difficult for readers to process and leads us to infer analogically the mind-set of the first-person narrator-observer behind the text, thus providing a window on how readers interact cognitively with text. In context, the extraordinary character of the lists leads to the impression that Dickens&#8217;s description of Genoa is not a standard travelogue description but, rather, an impressionist evocation (parallel to the impressionist movement in visual art) of his initial mental struggle in coming to terms with what, for him, is the overwhelming variety and unusualness of Genoa. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the relation between linguistic and cognitive accounts of reader-text interaction. 10 01 JB code lal.28.04emm 45 60 16 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;4. Immersed in imagined landscapes</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Contextual frames and metalepsis in representing virtual travel in Elspeth Davie&#8217;s &#8220;A map of the world&#8221;</Subtitle> 1 A01 Catherine Emmott Emmott, Catherine Catherine Emmott 01 Elspeth Davie&#8217;s short story &#8220;A map of the world&#8221; provides examples of a character apparently crossing narrative borders, termed &#8220;metalepsis&#8221; (Genette 1980, 1988). The character is unable to travel in actuality due to caring for her bed-ridden mother, but her imagination allows for virtual travel, enabling her apparently to step into imagined foreign landscapes, strongly experiencing these virtual environments. This article draws on cognitive and linguistic notions to describe these metaleptic events, including contextual frames, transportation, immersion, embodiment, deictic transfer, and granularity. The type of metalepsis which occurs in this story seems likely to facilitate the reader&#8217;s immersion in the character&#8217;s imagined contexts, but these imagined worlds must also be abruptly abandoned due to the imagining character&#8217;s domestic pressures. 10 01 JB code lal.28.05ber 61 80 20 Chapter 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;5. The blind tour</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Spatial abstraction in experimental fiction</Subtitle> 1 A01 Lars Bernaerts Bernaerts, Lars Lars Bernaerts 01 On the one hand, this chapter contributes to recent efforts in narrative theory which aim at specifying the cognitive and interpretive challenge of experimental fiction. On the other hand, it focuses on the unconventional textualisation of space in narrative. Drawing on stylistics and narrative theory, it analyses spatial abstraction as an effect of stylistic features in <i>Orchis Militaris</i>, an experimental narrative by Ivo Michiels. The motif of blindness is prominent in the novel and will be directly linked to the reader&#8217;s processing attempts. In that respect, it echoes the analogy of blindness used by Catherine Emmott (1997) to refer to the experience of a reader who is monitoring fictional contexts. The reader of <i>Orchis Militaris</i> is like a blind person, but one who is not provided with sufficient clues to construct the contextual configuration of the people and settings around him or her. Particular attention will be paid to the stylistic features of spatial abstraction, the cognitive demands made on readers and the interpretive opportunities emerging from their cognitive disorientation. 10 01 JB code lal.28.06zer 81 94 14 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;6. &#8220;How Others See&#160;&#8230;&#8221;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Landscape and identity in a translated poem by Radn&#243;ti</Subtitle> 1 A01 Judit Zerkowitz Zerkowitz, Judit Judit Zerkowitz 01 Mikl&#243;s Radn&#243;ti&#8217;s poem &#8220;How Others See&#160;&#8230;&#8221; is often recited in Hungary as a poetic expression of patriotism, a prayer for a victimised nation. Carrying out a stylistic analysis of one translation and comparing it to two others and the original, more textual evidence was found in favour of a humanistic pacifist interpretation than the standard patriotic reading, both at the level of structural patterns and of intertextual pointers. The poem contains a pattern of contrasts between the landscape as seen by the war pilot from above and the internal landscape viewed by the poet from below. The lexical choices of the translation analysed modify attitudes to the landscape and to the war in constructing identities, and argue for only individual innocence. 10 01 JB code lal.28.07goa 95 122 28 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;7. The poems of Edward Thomas</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A case study in ecostylistics</Subtitle> 1 A01 Andrew Goatly Goatly, Andrew Andrew Goatly 01 As an ecostylistics project locating Edward Thomas within the poetic tradition of Romantic Ecology, this chapter uses Systemic Functional Grammar to analyse nature-referring noun phrases in his <i>Collected Poems</i>. Nature is represented as active, the categories <sc>WATER</sc>, <sc>WEATHER</sc>, <sc>MONTHS</sc>/<sc>SEASONS</sc>, <sc>LIGHT</sc>/<sc>DARK</sc>, <sc>TREES</sc>, <sc>BIRDS</sc> providing the most important Actors and Sayers. Thomas deliberately blurs the human-natural boundary through activation of Tokens/Existents, personification and co-ordination of the human and non-human. The chapter also examines the use of imagery/symbolism, in relation to Graham Hough&#8217;s (1961) typology of literary genres. Thomas displays the whole gamut of subtle differences on the simile-literal comparison continuum, while telescoping the literal and metaphorical through literalisation. Examination of individual poems illustrates this metaphorical blurring of the abstract ineffable theme and the repeated literal description. The ineffability is reflected in quantitative data on negatives, indeterminate pronouns, and agentless passives, pointing to Thomas&#8217;s emphasis on the inadequacy of human language, contrasted with birdsong. An attempt is made to relate this imagistic style to his psychology, patriotism and poetic creed. 10 01 JB code lal.28.08lan 123 152 30 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;8. Landscape as a dominant hero in &#8220;Bezhin Meadow&#8221; by I.&#8239;S. Turgenev</TitleText> 1 A01 Maria M. Langleben Langleben, Maria M. Maria M. Langleben 01 The plot of &#8220;Bezhin Meadow&#8221; (BM) consists of three almost independent narratives loosely connected to each other. The story does not fall apart owing to continuous flow of time accompanied by ever-present landscapes, changing in concert with the motion of time, and merging with it. The collateral motion of time and landscapes (T&#38;L) provides a reliable thread tying the story together. Due to the steady motion of T&#38;L, an undercurrent, continuous plot arises, in which the union of T&#38;L is endowed with the qualities of animated antagonist clashing with people and suppressing them. The two plots interlace to produce a fatalistic, mystically tinged message. While changing its appearance and character, T&#38;L retains its domineering attitude to human beings, gradually increasing its pressure. Benevolent at its first appearance, T&#38;L becomes evil, aggressive, sends mysterious signals to fearful people, warns and finally annihilates the chosen victim. Being a unique and consummate device connecting the otherwise disunited plot, the undercurrent plot has also a deeper symbolic meaning in the context of Turgenev&#8217;s <i>Weltanschauung</i>. The mutable, fast-moving, implacable T&#38;L in BM is a close kin to a formidable natural force in his life-long dark reflections. It seems safe to suggest that the line of T&#38;L in BM is a covert image of the inexorable elemental force ruling over all life. 10 01 JB code lal.28.09dou 153 190 38 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;9. A social landscape</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Form and style in an Edith Wharton short story</Subtitle> 1 A01 John Douthwaite Douthwaite, John John Douthwaite 01 The beginning of Edith Wharton&#8217;s short story &#8220;The day of the funeral&#8221; rightly lays claim to being one of the most powerful openings in the genre. The first two paragraphs (139 words) foreshadow the content and tone of the entire story, a critique of patriarchal society. They also exemplify the richly implicational mode of writing employed by Wharton, displaying the myriad of foregrounding devices the author uses to achieve her goals, one major objective being that of positioning the reader to evaluate negatively the main (male) character, the &#8216;representative&#8217; of the callous male world portrayed by the story. A close reading of the first two paragraphs is offered to illustrate these points. 10 01 JB code lal.28.10zur 191 232 42 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 10. The agency of <i>The Hungry Tide</i></TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">An ecostylistic analysis</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elisabetta Zurru Zurru, Elisabetta Elisabetta Zurru 01 This chapter investigates the aims and scope and methodological underpinnings of ecostylistics, against the background of ecocriticism, ecolinguistics and stylistics. The theoretical and methodological frameworks outlined in the first section of the study are subsequently applied to the analysis of Amitav Ghosh&#8217;s novel <i>The Hungry Tide</i> (2005[2004]). More specifically, a close ecostylistic reading of three extracts from the novel through Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG; Halliday &#38; Matthiessen 2014[1985]) will be functional to unveiling the power hierarchy built up in the texts between human and non-human Participants. 10 01 JB code lal.28.ai 233 234 2 Miscellaneous 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Name index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lal.28.si 235 238 4 Miscellaneous 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Subject index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20171207 2017 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027200020 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 99.00 EUR R 01 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 149.00 USD S 733018184 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LAL 28 Hb 15 9789027200020 13 2017041501 BB 01 LAL 02 1569-3112 Linguistic Approaches to Literature 28 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics</TitleWithoutPrefix> 01 lal.28 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/lal.28 1 B01 John Douthwaite Douthwaite, John John Douthwaite University of Genoa 2 B01 Daniela Francesca Virdis Virdis, Daniela Francesca Daniela Francesca Virdis University of Cagliari 3 B01 Elisabetta Zurru Zurru, Elisabetta Elisabetta Zurru University of Genoa 01 eng 246 vii 238 LIT025000 v.2006 DSA 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 06 01 In treating the topic of the <i>landscapes of stylistics</i>, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be only a physical description of the external world. The implication is that texts attempt to produce specific effects on the reader determined by the author’s worldview. Contents and effects, (namely mental and emotional states, behaviours), are thus inseparable. Identifying those effects and how they are produced is an eminently cognitive operation. The chapters analyse a variety of linguistic devices and cognitive mechanisms employed in producing the text and accounting for the effects achieved. Though the majority of the chapters have a cognitive basis, a wide range of methodologies are employed, including ecostylistics, offering cutting-edge theoretical approaches teamed up with close reading. A further crucial feature of this collection is the selection of non-canonical texts, ranging from lesser-known texts in English to significant works in languages other than English, all of which are characterised by important social themes, thus emphasising the importance of critical appreciation as a means of self-empowerment. 05 Landscapes in literary works can be the object of study, and the word landscape can also refer to the many ways of studying them. This wonderful collection of essays demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of human experience with all kinds of landscapes, ranging from the physical environment to the most elusive human sensibilities and emotions. The book also demonstrates the wide variety of approaches that can be taken to making sense of those experiences. Running through and unifying the methodologies is the close analysis of literary texts, coupled with the application of conceptual tools from disciplines, such as pragmatics and cognitive science, essential to making sense of the enormous complexity of meaning in literature. The volume also convinces us that the best stylistic analysis can only be socially responsible, and not just an academic exercise performed by scholars in an ivory tower. Zoltan Kovecses, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lal.28.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027200020.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027200020.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lal.28.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lal.28.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lal.28.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lal.28.hb.png 10 01 JB code lal.28.ack vii viii 2 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acknowledgements</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lal.28.01dou 1 20 20 Chapter 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;1. Introduction</TitleText> 1 A01 John Douthwaite Douthwaite, John John Douthwaite 2 A01 Daniela Francesca Virdis Virdis, Daniela Francesca Daniela Francesca Virdis 3 A01 Elisabetta Zurru Zurru, Elisabetta Elisabetta Zurru 10 01 JB code lal.28.02wal 21 30 10 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;2. The role of analogy in Charles Dickens&#8217; <i>Pictures from Italy</i></TitleText> 1 A01 Katie Wales Wales, Katie Katie Wales 01 <i>Pictures from Italy</i> (1846) is one of Charles Dickens&#8217; lesser known works. There has been very little critical interest in this travelogue, and no linguistic analysis. In this chapter, I focus on the significant role of analogy in this text: broadly covering similes (<i>like</i>, <i>as</i>); quasi-similes (<i>as if</i>) and comparisons; and defined in cognitive terms as overt &#8220;mapping&#8221; across conceptual domains. I argue for four kinds of analogies at work, each group having different functions, effects and, most importantly, degrees of reader-helpfulness. The overall result is the creation of an Italy that is a rich composition of possible worlds and sub-worlds, corresponding as much to Dickens&#8217; beliefs and fantasies as to actual experience. The analogies are therefore a necessary and important part of the linguistic &#8220;texture&#8221; of the work overall. They raise interesting possibilities for the further exploration of related travelogues and the discourse of tourism more generally. 10 01 JB code lal.28.03sho 31 44 14 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;3. Listing and impressionism in Charles Dickens&#8217;s description of Genoa in <i>Pictures from Italy</i></TitleText> 1 A01 Mick Short Short, Mick Mick Short 01 This chapter examines a subset of representative list constructions in Dickens&#8217;s description of Genoa. Such constructions comprise nearly 20% of the text and those examined in detail are varied in type, long, complex and contain significant deviations from the norm. This linguistic complexity is difficult for readers to process and leads us to infer analogically the mind-set of the first-person narrator-observer behind the text, thus providing a window on how readers interact cognitively with text. In context, the extraordinary character of the lists leads to the impression that Dickens&#8217;s description of Genoa is not a standard travelogue description but, rather, an impressionist evocation (parallel to the impressionist movement in visual art) of his initial mental struggle in coming to terms with what, for him, is the overwhelming variety and unusualness of Genoa. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the relation between linguistic and cognitive accounts of reader-text interaction. 10 01 JB code lal.28.04emm 45 60 16 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;4. Immersed in imagined landscapes</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Contextual frames and metalepsis in representing virtual travel in Elspeth Davie&#8217;s &#8220;A map of the world&#8221;</Subtitle> 1 A01 Catherine Emmott Emmott, Catherine Catherine Emmott 01 Elspeth Davie&#8217;s short story &#8220;A map of the world&#8221; provides examples of a character apparently crossing narrative borders, termed &#8220;metalepsis&#8221; (Genette 1980, 1988). The character is unable to travel in actuality due to caring for her bed-ridden mother, but her imagination allows for virtual travel, enabling her apparently to step into imagined foreign landscapes, strongly experiencing these virtual environments. This article draws on cognitive and linguistic notions to describe these metaleptic events, including contextual frames, transportation, immersion, embodiment, deictic transfer, and granularity. The type of metalepsis which occurs in this story seems likely to facilitate the reader&#8217;s immersion in the character&#8217;s imagined contexts, but these imagined worlds must also be abruptly abandoned due to the imagining character&#8217;s domestic pressures. 10 01 JB code lal.28.05ber 61 80 20 Chapter 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;5. The blind tour</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Spatial abstraction in experimental fiction</Subtitle> 1 A01 Lars Bernaerts Bernaerts, Lars Lars Bernaerts 01 On the one hand, this chapter contributes to recent efforts in narrative theory which aim at specifying the cognitive and interpretive challenge of experimental fiction. On the other hand, it focuses on the unconventional textualisation of space in narrative. Drawing on stylistics and narrative theory, it analyses spatial abstraction as an effect of stylistic features in <i>Orchis Militaris</i>, an experimental narrative by Ivo Michiels. The motif of blindness is prominent in the novel and will be directly linked to the reader&#8217;s processing attempts. In that respect, it echoes the analogy of blindness used by Catherine Emmott (1997) to refer to the experience of a reader who is monitoring fictional contexts. The reader of <i>Orchis Militaris</i> is like a blind person, but one who is not provided with sufficient clues to construct the contextual configuration of the people and settings around him or her. Particular attention will be paid to the stylistic features of spatial abstraction, the cognitive demands made on readers and the interpretive opportunities emerging from their cognitive disorientation. 10 01 JB code lal.28.06zer 81 94 14 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;6. &#8220;How Others See&#160;&#8230;&#8221;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Landscape and identity in a translated poem by Radn&#243;ti</Subtitle> 1 A01 Judit Zerkowitz Zerkowitz, Judit Judit Zerkowitz 01 Mikl&#243;s Radn&#243;ti&#8217;s poem &#8220;How Others See&#160;&#8230;&#8221; is often recited in Hungary as a poetic expression of patriotism, a prayer for a victimised nation. Carrying out a stylistic analysis of one translation and comparing it to two others and the original, more textual evidence was found in favour of a humanistic pacifist interpretation than the standard patriotic reading, both at the level of structural patterns and of intertextual pointers. The poem contains a pattern of contrasts between the landscape as seen by the war pilot from above and the internal landscape viewed by the poet from below. The lexical choices of the translation analysed modify attitudes to the landscape and to the war in constructing identities, and argue for only individual innocence. 10 01 JB code lal.28.07goa 95 122 28 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;7. The poems of Edward Thomas</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A case study in ecostylistics</Subtitle> 1 A01 Andrew Goatly Goatly, Andrew Andrew Goatly 01 As an ecostylistics project locating Edward Thomas within the poetic tradition of Romantic Ecology, this chapter uses Systemic Functional Grammar to analyse nature-referring noun phrases in his <i>Collected Poems</i>. Nature is represented as active, the categories <sc>WATER</sc>, <sc>WEATHER</sc>, <sc>MONTHS</sc>/<sc>SEASONS</sc>, <sc>LIGHT</sc>/<sc>DARK</sc>, <sc>TREES</sc>, <sc>BIRDS</sc> providing the most important Actors and Sayers. Thomas deliberately blurs the human-natural boundary through activation of Tokens/Existents, personification and co-ordination of the human and non-human. The chapter also examines the use of imagery/symbolism, in relation to Graham Hough&#8217;s (1961) typology of literary genres. Thomas displays the whole gamut of subtle differences on the simile-literal comparison continuum, while telescoping the literal and metaphorical through literalisation. Examination of individual poems illustrates this metaphorical blurring of the abstract ineffable theme and the repeated literal description. The ineffability is reflected in quantitative data on negatives, indeterminate pronouns, and agentless passives, pointing to Thomas&#8217;s emphasis on the inadequacy of human language, contrasted with birdsong. An attempt is made to relate this imagistic style to his psychology, patriotism and poetic creed. 10 01 JB code lal.28.08lan 123 152 30 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;8. Landscape as a dominant hero in &#8220;Bezhin Meadow&#8221; by I.&#8239;S. Turgenev</TitleText> 1 A01 Maria M. Langleben Langleben, Maria M. Maria M. Langleben 01 The plot of &#8220;Bezhin Meadow&#8221; (BM) consists of three almost independent narratives loosely connected to each other. The story does not fall apart owing to continuous flow of time accompanied by ever-present landscapes, changing in concert with the motion of time, and merging with it. The collateral motion of time and landscapes (T&#38;L) provides a reliable thread tying the story together. Due to the steady motion of T&#38;L, an undercurrent, continuous plot arises, in which the union of T&#38;L is endowed with the qualities of animated antagonist clashing with people and suppressing them. The two plots interlace to produce a fatalistic, mystically tinged message. While changing its appearance and character, T&#38;L retains its domineering attitude to human beings, gradually increasing its pressure. Benevolent at its first appearance, T&#38;L becomes evil, aggressive, sends mysterious signals to fearful people, warns and finally annihilates the chosen victim. Being a unique and consummate device connecting the otherwise disunited plot, the undercurrent plot has also a deeper symbolic meaning in the context of Turgenev&#8217;s <i>Weltanschauung</i>. The mutable, fast-moving, implacable T&#38;L in BM is a close kin to a formidable natural force in his life-long dark reflections. It seems safe to suggest that the line of T&#38;L in BM is a covert image of the inexorable elemental force ruling over all life. 10 01 JB code lal.28.09dou 153 190 38 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;9. A social landscape</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Form and style in an Edith Wharton short story</Subtitle> 1 A01 John Douthwaite Douthwaite, John John Douthwaite 01 The beginning of Edith Wharton&#8217;s short story &#8220;The day of the funeral&#8221; rightly lays claim to being one of the most powerful openings in the genre. The first two paragraphs (139 words) foreshadow the content and tone of the entire story, a critique of patriarchal society. They also exemplify the richly implicational mode of writing employed by Wharton, displaying the myriad of foregrounding devices the author uses to achieve her goals, one major objective being that of positioning the reader to evaluate negatively the main (male) character, the &#8216;representative&#8217; of the callous male world portrayed by the story. A close reading of the first two paragraphs is offered to illustrate these points. 10 01 JB code lal.28.10zur 191 232 42 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter 10. The agency of <i>The Hungry Tide</i></TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">An ecostylistic analysis</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elisabetta Zurru Zurru, Elisabetta Elisabetta Zurru 01 This chapter investigates the aims and scope and methodological underpinnings of ecostylistics, against the background of ecocriticism, ecolinguistics and stylistics. The theoretical and methodological frameworks outlined in the first section of the study are subsequently applied to the analysis of Amitav Ghosh&#8217;s novel <i>The Hungry Tide</i> (2005[2004]). More specifically, a close ecostylistic reading of three extracts from the novel through Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG; Halliday &#38; Matthiessen 2014[1985]) will be functional to unveiling the power hierarchy built up in the texts between human and non-human Participants. 10 01 JB code lal.28.ai 233 234 2 Miscellaneous 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Name index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code lal.28.si 235 238 4 Miscellaneous 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Subject index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20171207 2017 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 565 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 59 24 01 02 JB 1 00 99.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 104.94 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 24 02 02 JB 1 00 83.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 24 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 149.00 USD