Talbot Fictions at Work

Language and Social Practice in Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-89656-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Language In Social Life

In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. She discusses both `high' and `low' fiction, combining discussion of social context with language analysis. Examples are taken from children's tales, romance, horror and science in her language analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talbot, Mary M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Part I: Fiction as social practice
1. What is Fiction?
2. Discourses, readers, genres
3. Intertextuality and text population

Part II: Fiction and social reproduction
4. Escaping into romance
5. Confronting horror

Part III: Fiction and social change
6. Fiction and empowerment
7. Feminist science fiction

Notes
Bibliography
Index