LEADER 04647nam 22006495 450 001 9911022355203321 005 20250830130152.0 010 $a3-031-93389-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-93389-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32275199 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32275199 035 $a(CKB)40832376000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-93389-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940832376000041 100 $a20250830d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Colours the Words Cast $eColour Terms in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas /$fby Christopher Butler, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (259 pages) 225 1 $aSocial Sciences Series 311 08$a3-031-93388-5 327 $a1. Prologue: aims of the study and structure of the book -- 2. Studying colour in poetry, with particular reference to the poems of Dylan Thomas -- 3. Corpus of poems and methodology -- 4. Accounts of symbolic associations of colours with other domains -- 5. Frequency data -- Part II: Chromatic primary basic colour terms and related non-basic terms -- 6. Green -- 7. Red, blue and yellow -- Part III: Achromatic primary basic colour terms and related non-basic terms -- 8. White -- 9. Black -- Part IV: The remaining colour terms -- 10. Secondary basic colour terms: brown and grey ? but why not pink, purple or orange?- 11. Non-basic metonymic colour terms derived from the names of metals: gold(en) and silver -- 12. Summarising modification of basic colour terms and distribution of colour words among entity types -- 13. The use of more than one colour word in a poem -- 14. Epilogue: a kaleidoscope of colour. 330 $a?This fascinating book offers a unique perspective on Dylan Thomas?s poetry. As an exercise in the linguistic analysis of literature, it is a peerless demonstration of both the practice and value of stylistic analysis. At the same time, it is a significant addition to literary scholarship on Thomas?s poetry and is an exemplar of the level of critical detail that can be uncovered via linguistic methods.? ?Dan McIntyre, Professor of English Language, Uppsala University, Sweden This book examines the use of colour terms in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, adopting a linguistic and stylistic - rather than literary - approach. Although critical studies of the poetry of Dylan Thomas abound, linguistic analyses of his poems are rare. The authors investigate in detail Thomas?s use of colour terms and their connotative symbolic meanings, which form the basis for what have been called colour metaphors. The study is also a rich database which will be of use to researchers interested in the use of colour terms in other texts, whether literary or non-literary. This book will be of interest primarily to academics and advanced students in the field of linguistic stylistics. Christopher Butler retired in 1998 from his professorial position at what is now York St John University, having previously been Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research is mainly in functional approaches to linguistic theory and description, with a particular interest in English and Spanish. Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen is Professor Emerita at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests include functional approaches to grammatical issues in English, with a special focus on modality, and contrastive grammar of English, French and Dutch. 410 0$aSocial Sciences Series 606 $aLanguage and languages$xStyle 606 $aPoetry 606 $aPsychology 606 $aAesthetics 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aStylistics 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 606 $aPsychology of Aesthetics 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xStyle. 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aPsychology. 615 0$aAesthetics. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aStylistics. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 615 24$aPsychology of Aesthetics. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 676 $a821.912 700 $aButler$b Christopher$0321148 701 $aSimon-Vandenbergen$b Anne-Marie$0769996 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911022355203321 996 $aThe Colours the Words Cast$94431188 997 $aUNINA