Hermeneutic resistance: Four test cases for the notion of literary uninterpretability

Orr, Leonard

doi:10.1515/jls.2007.007

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“…Furkey et al's (2007) book collects argumentative articles on the reading process that innovatively draw together both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic source frameworks. Other work that argues strongly for re-evaluations includes the always interesting Colin Martindale (2007), the challenging James Mellard (2007) and the important position set out by Leonard Orr (2007).…”

Section: Language Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review Article: The year's work in stylistics 2007

Stockwell

2008

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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The Stylistics were one of the most successful Philadelphia soul bands of the early 1970s, their fame coinciding with the early establishment of what is now their namesake scholarly project. A compilation album, 'The Very Best of The Stylistics', was released in 2007, a year that also saw some of the very best examples of stylistic analysis published in the academic press. On this evidence, the quantity and quality of stylistic output continues to rise, as new and younger scholars embrace the discipline as the natural and rational form of literary scholarship, and as some established academic voices recognize that attention to textuality and old values of literary craft and appreciation are valuable after all. The year 2007 is distinguished by the diversity and depth of work in stylistics. Stop look listen (to your heart)The increasing influence of stylistics can be explained on the basis of several factors. Aside from the inherent advantages of the approach, there are several historical accidents that have helped to shape stylistics as a largely practical and artisanal enterprise. Over the years, stylisticians were as likely to be found working in departments of second language pedagogy, applied linguistics, modern language studies and secondary schools as in departments of literary studies. To a certain extent, this meant that stylistics proceeded to develop a reasonably unified set of methods without much anxiety for theoretical debates raging around literary scholarship. Of course, there are plenty of examples too of stylisticians engaging with critical theory over the years, but it is undeniable that there remains a very strongly practical and democratic flavour to stylistic work.This ethos finds its realization in the fact that much stylistics is accessible and readable and sets itself explicitly against obscurantism. Most major stylisticians of the last half-century have published enabling textbooks, handbooks, exemplary demonstrations of stylistic analysis, and other manifestations of a desire to encourage students towards the discipline. With very few exceptions, such generosity of intellect is still unusual in other areas of arts and humanities research. This encouragement takes the form of the provision of clear methods and illustrative examples, and 2007 saw a number of such works. The Open University in the UK has been at the forefront of such accessible texts for many years, and a series of new books makes a significant contribution to language study. Maybin et al.'s (2007) Using English and Graddol et al.'s (2007) Changing English are the latest additions to this tradition. They teach the study of the English language through real texts and with a concern for situating examples of language in social, ideological and historical contexts. These have come to be principles in modern stylistics.

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Section: Language Andmentioning

confidence: 99%