Victorian parables / Susan E. Colón

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464107703321
• Autore: Colón Susan E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; New York, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2012
• ISBN: 1-4742-1158-5; 1-4411-2137-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 158 p.)
• Collana: Continuum new directions in religion and literature
• Disciplina: 823/.809
• Soggetti: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Parables in literature; Christianity and literature - England - History - 19th century; Christianity in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-152) and index
• Nota di contenuto: Preface \ 1. Parable as Literature, Literature as Parable \ 2. The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Parable and Realism \ 3. "The Parable of Actual Life": Charlotte Yonge's The Heir of Redclyffe \ 4. Prodigal Sons in the Fiction of Margaret Oliphant \ 5. "The Agent of a Superior": Stewardship Parables in Our Mutual Friend \ Afterword \ Notes\ Bibliography \ Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son, and Lazarus and the Rich Man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism--the fiction of the probable and the commonplace--bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. But the Victorian literary engagement with the parable genre was not merely a matter of the useful or telling allusion. Susan E. Colón shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable ; are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources."--; The familiar stories of the good Samaritan, the prodigal son, and Lazarus and the rich man were part of the cultural currency in the nineteenth century, and Victorian authors drew upon the figures and plots of biblical parables for a variety of authoritative, interpretive, and subversive effects. However, scholars of parables in literature have often overlooked the 19th-century novel, assuming that realism bears no relation to the subversive, iconoclastic genre of parable. In this book Susan E. Colòn shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral ideas. Against the common assumption that the genres of realism and parable are polar opposites, this study explores how Victorian novels, despite their length, verisimilitude, and multi-plot complexity, can become parables in ways that imitate, interpret, and challenge their biblical sources.

Exploring functional-cognitive space / / Christopher S. Butler, Francisco Gonzalvez-Garcia

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821360503321
• Autore: Butler Christopher S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-272-7022-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (597 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Language Companion Series, , 0165-7763 ; ; Volume 157
• Disciplina: 410.1/8
• Soggetti: Space and time in language; Functionalism (Linguistics); Cognitive maps (Psychology); Psycholinguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for models; Figures and tables ; Introduction; 1.1 Aims of the book; 1.2 What's in a label?; 1.2.1 Functional-cognitive space; 1.2.2 Approaches, models, theories; 1.2.3 Functionalist, formalist, cognitivist, constructionist and usage-based linguistics; 1.3 The story so far; 1.3.1 Previous work on relationships between functionalism and Chomskyan generative grammar; 1.3.2 Previous work on relationships between functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches; 1.4 Choice of models for investigation1.5 Methodological principles; 1.6 The structure of the rest of the book; Profiles; 2.1 Functional Discourse Grammar; 2.2 Role and Reference Grammar; 2.3 Systemic Functional Linguistics; 2.4 The work of Talmy Givón; 2.5 Interactional Linguistics and its antecedents in Emergent Grammar; 2.6 Word Grammar; 2.7 The Columbia School; 2.8 Cognitive Grammar; 2.9 Construction Grammar(s); 2.9.1 Sign-Based Construction Grammar; 2.9.2 Cognitive Construction Grammar; 2.9.3 Embodied Construction Grammar; 2.9.4 Frame-semantic Construction Grammar; 2.9.5 Radical Construction Grammar2.10 The collostructional approach; 2.11 The Lexical Constructional Model; 2.12 The Parallel Architecture; Features for the characterization of models; 3.1 General strategy in the choice of features; 3.2 The six major groups of features; 3.3 Relationship with the concept of criteria of adequacy; 3.4 Communication and motivation; 3.5 Coverage; 3.6 The database for description; 3.7 Explanation; 3.8 The form of the grammar; 3.9 Applications; 3.10 The questionnaire; 3.10.1 The questionnaire itself; 3.10.2 The selection of respondents; 3.10.3 Limitations of the questionnaire items: Problems and solutions3.10.4 The respondents' final ratings; Statistical analysis of the questionnaire data; 4.1 Background to the statistical approach; 4.2 The statistical techniques; 4.2.1 Correlation; 4.2.2 Multidimensional scaling; 4.2.3 Hierarchical clustering; 4.3 Correlations among the sets of questionnaire responses; 4.4 Multidimensional scaling analysis of questionnaire responses; 4.5 Hierarchical clustering analysis of questionnaire responses; 4.6 Overall conclusions from the statistical analysis of the questionnaire data; Characterization of models5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Communication and motivation; 5.2.1 Initial summary of responses; 5.2.2 FDG; 5.2.3 RRG; 5.2.4 SFL; 5.2.5 Givón; 5.2.6 EG+; 5.2.7 WG; 5.2.8 CS; 5.2.9 CG; 5.2.10 SBCG; 5.2.11 CCG; 5.2.12 ECG; 5.2.13 FSCG; 5.2.14 RCG; 5.2.15 CLS; 5.2.16 LCM; 5.2.17 PA; Characterization of models; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2.1 FDG; 6.2.2 RRG; 6.2.3 SFL; 6.2.4 Givón; 6.2.5 EG+; 6.2.6 WG; 6.2.7 CS; 6.2.8 CG; 6.2.9 SBCG; 6.2.10 CCG; 6.2.11 ECG; 6.2.12 FSCG; 6.2.13 RCG; 6.2.14 CLS; 6.2.15 LCM; 6.2.16 PA; Characterization of models; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Analysis of models; 7.2.1 FDG
• Sommario/riassunto: This book, intended primarily for researchers and advanced students, expands greatly on previous work by the authors exploring the topography of the multidimensional "functional-cognitive space" within which functional, cognitive and/or constructionist approaches to language can be located. The analysis covers a broad range of 16 such approaches, with some additional references to Chomskyan minimalism, and is based on 58 questionnaire items, each rated by 29 experts on particular models for their importance in the model concerned. These ratings are analysed statistically to reveal overall patt

Lettere a Angelo Ciavarella / a cura di Antonio Motta ; nota di Tommaso Nardella

• Record Nr.: UNISANNIOTO01145490
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Marco in Lamis, : Quaderni del Sud, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 58 p. ; 23 cm.
• Collana: Biblioteca minima di Capitanata ; 42
• Disciplina: 020.92; 856.9; 858.914
• Soggetti: CIAVARELLA, ANGELO - LETTERE E CARTEGGI
• Collocazione: POZZO LIB.F. ASSANTE 156
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia