Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts

by Elena Semino

Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts introduces an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their interaction with the language of texts. The book demonstrates in detail three ways of approaching poetic text worlds, namely as discourse situations, possible worlds, and mental constructs. Clear and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582303540
• ISBN13: 9780582303546
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"