What is it about?
The book aims to present advanced linguistic methods of analysing texts which deal with not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits, and the results obtained from such methods. Methodologies adopted include stylistics, narratology, cognitive linguistics, ecostylistics, computational stylistics
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Why is it important?
First of all range: a wide range of methods, (including innovative chapters on ecostylistics), a wide range of literary texts, including non-canonical or not widely-known and analysed texts, over a range of cultures (American, Bengali, English, Flemish, Hungarian, Russian, Scottish), deep social concern manifested both by the propositional content of the texts analysed and the social and cultural issues brought out by the analysis, an emphasis on thought and emotion, its link to society and culture, and on mental processing.
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Editing this book (together with Daniela Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru, as well as writing my own chapter and the introduction) was exciting because as the chapters were produced, the social-ideological aspect gradually emerged, as did the great attention to mental processing. The selection of non-canonical texts was deliberate, in order to ensure originality, and above all, together with the divesrsity of cultures from which the texts are drawn, to offer a supra-national view of society, a point which was also guaranteed by the range of themes dealt with which are crucial to human life: nationalism; war; identity, Alterity, community and values; gender; religion; economic interests; culture and culture conflict; culture and history; nature; perception and cognition; mental and emotional states; and the relationship between the environment, life and perception. The intention of the book was to trasncend " local borders" in this epoch of great social turmoil in order to renew a humanist vision
Professor John Douthwaite
Universita degli Studi di Genova
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This page is a summary of: The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics, November 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/lal.28.
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