Poetic effects : a relevance theory perspective / / Adrian Pilkington

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971486503321
• Autore: Pilkington Adrian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; [Great Britain], : J. Benjamins Pub, c2000
• ISBN: 9786612163180; 9781282163188; 1282163183; 9789027250902; 9027250901; 9789027298980; 902729898X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 209 p
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser. 75
• Classificazione: EC 1820
• Disciplina: 808.1
• Soggetti: Poetics; Criticism; Relevance
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: POETIC EFFECTS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Literary studies and literary theory -- Chapter 2. Theories of literariness, language and communication in literary studies -- Chapter 3. Pragmatic Theory -- Chapter 4. Metaphor -- Chapter 5. Schemes and verse effects -- Chapter 6. Emotion, attitude and sentimentality -- Chapter 7. Varieties of affective experience -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
• Sommario/riassunto: Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies by proposing a new theoretical account of literariness in terms of mental representations and mental ; processes.The book attempts to define literariness in terms of text-internal linguistic properties, cultural codes or special purpose reading strategies, as well as suggestions that the notion of literariness should be dissolved or rejected. It challenges the accounts of language and verbal communication that underpin such positions and outlines the theory of verbal communication developed within relevance theory that supports an explanatory account of poetic effects and a new account of literariness. This is followed by a broader discussion of philosophical and psychological issues having a bearing on the question of what is expressed non-propositionally in literary communication. The discussion of emotion, qualitative experience and, more specifically, aesthetic experience provides a fuller characterisation of poetic effects and 'poetic thought'.