Overview
- Represents a significant contribution to literary and linguistic scholarship on George Moore
- Offers a pragmatically-informed study of literary revision and its role in the creative process
- Provides fresh perspectives on pragmatic literary stylistics and its relationship to critical theory
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About this book
This book presents the first full-length study of the stylistically experimental and influential novelist George Moore’s (1852-1933) repeated acts of rewriting. Moore extensively and repeatedly revised and re-issued many of his major works, sometimes years or even decades after they were initially published. This monograph provides new insights into how this process shaped and determined his work, and by extension into the creative significance of literary rewriting more generally. It also offers the first sustained application of linguistic pragmatics, the study of meaning in interaction, to the work of a single author, opening up questions about how analytical paradigms developed in pragmatics can explain how rewriting can affect the interactive relationship between a literary text and its readers. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of pragmatics, stylistics, literary history, English literature and Irish literature.
Reviews
"This is a sustained and detailed analysis of Moore’s aesthetic practice of revision that will be of interest to both literary scholars and researchers in stylistics, but also to anyone engaged in the process of creative writing." --Andrew Caink, University of Westminster, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Siobhan Chapman is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pragmatics of Revision
Book Subtitle: George Moore’s Acts of Rewriting
Authors: Siobhan Chapman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41268-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41267-8Published: 30 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41270-8Published: 30 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41268-5Published: 29 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 248
Topics: Pragmatics, Stylistics, Language and Literature, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics