{"product_id":"language-in-literature-style-and-foregrounding","title":"Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"40\" data-end=\"56\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"40\" data-end=\"56\"\u003eBook Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"346\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"88\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"88\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"70\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/strong\u003e: Geoffrey Leech\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"119\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"119\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"102\"\u003eEdition\u003c\/strong\u003e: First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"120\" data-end=\"146\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"146\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"133\"\u003eBinding\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"147\" data-end=\"175\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"175\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"168\"\u003eNumber of Pages\u003c\/strong\u003e: 234\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"208\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"208\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"194\"\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 15-08-2008\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"209\" data-end=\"235\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"211\" data-end=\"235\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"211\" data-end=\"218\"\u003eEAN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781032031071\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"286\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"238\" data-end=\"286\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"238\" data-end=\"260\"\u003ePackage Dimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"287\" data-end=\"313\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"313\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"302\"\u003eLanguages\u003c\/strong\u003e: English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"346\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"346\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"337\"\u003eCountry of Origin\u003c\/strong\u003e: India\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"348\" data-end=\"636\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"348\" data-end=\"363\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"367\"\u003eOver a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the ‘mystery’ of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"638\" data-end=\"930\"\u003eIn this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters. The entire volume shows a continuity of approach across a period when literary and linguistic studies have often appeared to drift further apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"932\" data-end=\"1450\"\u003eLeech sets the concept of \u003cstrong data-start=\"958\" data-end=\"977\"\u003e‘foregrounding’\u003c\/strong\u003e (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays, and prose works produce special meaning, he counters the ‘flight from the text’ that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years. In this period, the response of the reader has been given undue prominence over the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1452\" data-end=\"1663\"\u003eThe book provides an enlightening analysis of well-known (as well as less well-known) texts of great writers of the past, including \u003cstrong data-start=\"1584\" data-end=\"1638\"\u003eKeats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong data-start=\"1644\" data-end=\"1662\"\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ROUTLEDGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49868313428272,"sku":"Sarat_9781032031071","price":1271.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/routledge-book-default-title-language-in-literature-style-and-foregrounding-41057634844976.jpg?v=1775954280","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/language-in-literature-style-and-foregrounding","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}