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Some words of Jane Austen
\"Tave identifies and explains a number of central terms in Austen's language of values. He traces the force of words such as \"limitations,\" \"expectations,\" \"sensibility,\" \"odd,\" and \"lively\" to tease out the way her view of morality and the world are revealed in the plots of her six novels. He assumes the reader knows these books. Each of his chapters provides a careful close reading of one novel.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Language of Jane Austen
First published in 1972, Norman Page's seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the exceptional nature and the degree of subtlety of Jane Austen's use of language.
As well as examining the staple items of her vocabulary and some of the characteristic patterns of her syntax, attention is paid to her use of dialogue and of the letter form. The aim of the study is not simply to analyse linguistic qualities for their own sake but to employ close verbal analysis to enrich the critical understanding of Jane Austen's novels.
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Corpus linguistics in literary analysis : Jane Austen and her contemporaries
Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora. The first part of the book addresses theoretical issues such as the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in corpus linguistic analyses, criteria for the evaluation of results from corpus linguistic analyses and also discusses units of meaning in language.The second part of the book takes this theory and applies it to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and to two corpora consisting of 1) Austen's six novels and 2) texts that are contemporary with Austen. The analyses demonstrate the impact of various features of text on literary meanings and how corpus tools can extract new critical angles.This book will be a key read for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates working in corpus linguistics and in stylistics on linguistics and language studies courses.
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'I find new things I'd forgotten I needed': Consumption, domesticity and home renovation
This paper explores the numerous ways in which domestic space is represented as a site of excess, consumption and desire in texts from different ends of the cultural spectrum: contemporary home improvement culture, in particular renovation programs such as The Block (2004-), as well as in a selection of poems by contemporary Australian female poets. I examine the development of house renovation as a cultural phenomenon in Australia, particularly in Australian reality television, and consider some of the uncanny devices used to construct a fantasy of completion and wholeness that is implicit in most popular home improvement texts. By fixing the house, these programs suggest to viewers, the inhabitant becomes a better person, better parent, better consumer (insofar as their purchases reflect particular middle-class tastes and styles). Whereas there is a great deal of critical and creative work on the overlapping paradigms of architecture and narrative, \"poetry, in contrast, is a space that does not permit ready entry\" (Brewster 143).
Following this, I explore how representations of renovation in contemporary Australian poetry challenge the mythologies of comfort, security, heteronormativity and unity embedded in the aspirational and materialist images constructed by television renovation narratives. Analysis of the poems reveals a more unsettling view of renovation: they present experiences in which houses that were seen as hermetic and protective are made permeable and alienating. Familiar domestic spaces become subtly or overtly unfamiliar. Through this analysis and a brief discussion of my own creative practice, literary representations of acts of renovation are shown to be far-reaching and complex.
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An approach to translation criticism : Emma and Madame Bovary in translation
Lance Hewson's book on translation criticism sets out to examine ways in which a literary text may be explored as a translation, not primarily to judge it, but to understand where the text stands in relation to its original by examining the interpretative potential that results from the translational choices that have been made. After considering theoretical aspects of translation criticism, Hewson sets out a method of analysing originals and their translations on three different levels. Tools are provided to describe translational choices and their potential effects, and applied to two corpora: Flaubert's Madame Bovary and six of the English translations, and Austen's Emma, with three of the French translations. The results of the analyses are used to construct a hypothesis about each translation, which is classified according to two scales of measurement, one distinguishing between \"just\" and \"false\" interpretations, and the other between \"divergent similarity\", \"relative divergence\", \"radical divergence\" and \"adaptation\".
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Sharing One's Story and 'a Faithful Narrative of Every Event'
This article explores one of Jane Austen's narrative techniques, focusing on her characters' telling of and writing on their past. To incorporate events that characters experienced at different times or locations, she uses life stories constructed by an individual told in the first person. She relies on the characters' subjective telling of their own life stories at crucial points in the plot, rather than leaving the description to the omniscient narrator. In so doing, she provides fresh ways of reading; she enables the reader to get involved in the narrative by sharing an individual's life story and at the same time she ensures that the reader places the character's narrative at some distance. Her use of this method of stories allows her to follow and develop literary tradition. Inheriting the tradition of the letter-writing generations, she provides a new use of life-story telling and a new way of reading them.
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Apriorism for Empiricists
.\\n That is, they conduct themselves as if they actually cared about suiting their conclusions to the burden of available facts. Since the 1 980s, however, in the face of intimidation from the academic avant-garde, they have been reluctant to speak openly about such \"logocentric,\" \"positivistic,\" \"epistemologically naive\" empiricism.
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Completing the Paradigm: In Pursuit of Evidence
[...] although in his target paper Carroll has placed a good deal of emphasis on contributing fields, arguing for the benefits of \"scientific method,\" such as \"a rigorous empirical analysis of cognitive mechanisms,\" the importation of theories and approaches from outside the field of literature itself brings the risk that the distinctively literary qualities of literature will be misrepresented or overlooked - a danger that \"Humanistic sensitivity to the fine shades of tone and style\" will likely not be effective enough to avert. An evolutionary role for literature, we might hypothesize, only developed as it did for this reason, that human beings turned to literature for experiences unavailable elsewhere. [...] literary theories, drawn from the literary domain (regarding such matters as style, narrative structure, genre), must be regarded as central to the evolutionary endeavour, if they can illuminate what is inherent to literary experience from the Pleistocene up to Jane Austen and beyond.
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