Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment
Edited by Daniela Francesca Virdis, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 37] 2021. vii, 258 pp.
Ernestine Lahey
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ernestine Lahey plays a role.
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Subjects Theoretical literature & literary studies
Articles
2021 Chapter 3. Death by nature in two poems by Alden Nowlan Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey (eds.), pp. 45–64 | Chapter
This chapter provides a Text World Theory analysis of two poems by the Canadian poet Alden Nowlan, specifically focusing on the “death by landscape” trope (Atwood 1972) in these works. I argue that Nowlan, often viewed as a regionalist poet, draws on a wilderness-based model of Canadian identity… read more
2021 Chapter 1. Introduction Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 4. World-building as cognitive feedback loop Experiencing Fictional Worlds, Neurohr, Benedict and Lizzie Stewart-Shaw (eds.), pp. 53–72 | Chapter
Text World Theory (Gavins 2007; Werth 1999) has traditionally assumed a unidirectional model of knowledge transmission from discourse-world to text-world. In this chapter I follow Troscianko (2017) to suggest that world-building in discourse occurs within a cognitive feedback loop in which existing… read more