THE LIMITS OF EXPRESSION - LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, MIND IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Taking as its starting point what is sometimes called 'the prison house of language' - the widespread feeling that language falls terribly short when it comes to articulating the rich and disparate contents of the human mental tapestry - this book sets out a radically new view of the interplay between language, literature and mind. Shifting the focus from the literary text itself to literature as a case of human agency, it reconsiders a wide range of interdisciplinary issues including the move from world to mind, the existence or otherwise of a property of literariness or essence of art, the nature of literature as a unique output of human cognition and the possible distinctiveness of the mind that creates it. In constant dialogue with philosophy, linguistics and the cognitive sciences, this book offers an invaluable new treatment of literature and literary language and sketches novel directions for literary study in the twenty-first century. Features Summary Exploring 'the prison house of language', this book radically alters our view of the interplay between language, literature and mind; it reconsiders a wide range of interdisciplinary issues of particular interest to linguists... Author Patricia Kolaiti Publisher Cambridge UniversityPress Release date 20190124 Pages 165 ISBN 1-108-41866-X ISBN 13 978-1-108-41866-9