The language and literature reader

Table of Contents: “…Taking a poem to pieces / John Sinclair -- Stylistics / David Lodge -- Linguistic function and literary style : an inquiry into the language of William Golding's The inheritors / M.A.K. Halliday -- On the deviance of literary discourse / Henry Widdowson -- Language, linguistics and literary analysis / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt -- Linguistic criticism / Roger Fowler -- Metre / Geoffrey Leech -- Discourse analysis and drama / Mick Short -- Poem, reader, response : making sense with Skunk hour / Michael Toolan -- Style and interpretation in Hemingway's 'Cat in the rain' / Ronald Carter -- Changing the guard at Elsinore / Walter Nash -- But what is literature? …”