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Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression

Demjén, Zsófia
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781474212663
Publisert
2015-08-27
Utgiver
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Bloomsbury Academic
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531 gr
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Demjén, Zsófia

Biographical note

Zsófia Demjén is Lecturer of English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK.

Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression

Demjén, Zsófia
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An excellent example of the benefits that can be reaped by [broadening the boundaries of stylistic approaches] ... By combining qualitative and quantitative methods with narrative, cognitive and psychological insights, Demjén is particularly well equipped to draw conclusions with regard to the linguistic projection of Plath's renowned depressive bouts. ... She impressively combines all these interests and insightfully highlights possible applications of stylistics work for the understanding of depression in general.

The Year's Work in Stylistics

Demjén’s analyses combine qualitative insights with quantitative corpus findings, adopting a range of approaches and analytical techniques, from SFL to metaphor theory ... Those who are curious about the mechanics of Plath’s style, and not just about her experience of depression, will find a fascinating dissection of the out-of-hours workings of Plath’s genius.

Discourse & Society

An important contribution to the widening field of stylistics and will be of interest to anyone wanting to understand the relationship between language and emotion, and what is actually being articulated about an individual’s state of mind through their linguistic choices.

Language and Literature

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Zsófia Demjén has written a meticulous and illuminating interdisciplinary study of Sylvia Plath's journals. She makes a strong case for their capacity to provide real insight into the writer's experiences of mental illness. I was particularly struck by Demjén's emphasis on the usefulness of these journal entries to others, as articulations of suffering that we often cannot voice ourselves. Though academically rigorous and methodical, the book also makes for fascinating and highly compelling reading. Whilst rightly careful to discourage a reading of Plath's entire published creative output through a simplistic biographical lens, Demjén's evaluation of these journals validates our instinct to regard Plath's depression as relevant to an understanding of the writer and her work.

- Rachel Kelly, author of 'Black Rainbow: how words healed me - my journey through depression',

This book is a major incursion of a linguist into the realms of clinical psychology and psychopathology and one which I welcome. It lays down very well the variety of tools discourse analysis offers in helping understand the experiences which have hitherto been the domain of mental health care professionals.

- Dariusz Galasinski, Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK,

This is a rich, timely and fascinating book. Zsófia Demjén deftly and intricately combines methodological and analytical approaches in order to examine, with true rigour and insight, the language of one of the 20th Century's most powerfully and disturbingly eloquent stylists. Focusing on Plath's intimate and affecting 'Smith Journal', Demjén systematically explores the interface between emotional turmoil and its textual encoding, revealing how this alluringly manneristic writer harnesses the resources of language in order to articulate profound psychological distress. <i>Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States</i> will be of interest to students and scholars of literature and language, not to mention the more general reader piqued by all things Plath.

- Kevin Harvey, Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham, UK,

Focusing on the first journal in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, this book writes a convincing case for the value of corpus-based stylistics and narrative psychology in the analysis of representations of the experience of affective states. Situated at the intersection between language study, psychology and healthcare, this study of the personal writing of a poet and novelist showcases a cutting-edge combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, including metaphor analysis, corpus methods, and second person narration. Techniques that systematically account for representations of experiences of affective states, such as those in this book, are rare and crucial in improving understanding of these experiences. The findings and methods of this book therefore potentially have bearing on the study, diagnosis and treatment of depression and other mental illnesses. Zsófia Demjén follows the cognitive turn in both literary studies and linguistics here, emerging with a greater understanding of Plath, her diarized output and her experience of her inner world.
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List of Abbreviations List of Concordances List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part I – Background to the Study 2. Sylvia Plath and her Journals 3. Language and Affective States – Setting the Theoretical Scene 4. Linguistic Characteristics of the Smith Journal - Corpus Analysis I Part II – Zooming In: Investigating Key Linguistic Features 5. Self-description and Direct References to Affective States 6. Affective States and Metaphor 7. You and Plath 8. Investigating Second-person Entries Further - Corpus Analysis II 9. So What? References Index
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Demonstrates corpus-based stylistics and narrative psychology in the representation and codification of mental states, applied to literary fiction and biography.
Asks and answers the question, 'How does the language of written texts of a personal nature convey the writer’s mental states?'
Advances in Stylistics provides student resources and research material in cutting-edge stylistics. It forgoes traditional boundaries to encompass the study of both literary and non-literary texts, and covers exciting new developments in the field. It takes a broad view of stylistics as the practice of using linguistic methodologies and analytical frameworks to facilitate the analysis of texts of all genres and types, for the purpose of explaining why we interpret texts in the way that we do. Books in the series address such topics as stylistic theory, discourse analysis, language and cognition, literary genre, corpus stylistics, the analysis of historical texts, pedagogical stylistics, multimodality and stylistic methodologies. The series further develops stylistic and linguistic theory, to demonstrate the application and value of stylistic tools of analysis and further consolidate stylistics as a major study and research area within language studies. Editorial Board Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UK Beatrix Busse, University of Heidelberg, Germany Szilvia Csábi, Independent Scholar Yaxiao Cui, University of Nottingham, UK Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg, Germany Lesley Jeffries, University of Huddersfield, UK Manuel Jobert, Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3, France Lorenzo Mastropierro, University of Nottingham, UK Eric Rundquist, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Larry Stewart, College of Wooster, USA Odette Vassallo, University of Malta, Malta Peter Verdonk, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USA
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An excellent example of the benefits that can be reaped by [broadening the boundaries of stylistic approaches] ... By combining qualitative and quantitative methods with narrative, cognitive and psychological insights, Demjén is particularly well equipped to draw conclusions with regard to the linguistic projection of Plath's renowned depressive bouts. ... She impressively combines all these interests and insightfully highlights possible applications of stylistics work for the understanding of depression in general.

The Year's Work in Stylistics

Demjén’s analyses combine qualitative insights with quantitative corpus findings, adopting a range of approaches and analytical techniques, from SFL to metaphor theory ... Those who are curious about the mechanics of Plath’s style, and not just about her experience of depression, will find a fascinating dissection of the out-of-hours workings of Plath’s genius.

Discourse & Society

An important contribution to the widening field of stylistics and will be of interest to anyone wanting to understand the relationship between language and emotion, and what is actually being articulated about an individual’s state of mind through their linguistic choices.

Language and Literature

Se alle

Zsófia Demjén has written a meticulous and illuminating interdisciplinary study of Sylvia Plath's journals. She makes a strong case for their capacity to provide real insight into the writer's experiences of mental illness. I was particularly struck by Demjén's emphasis on the usefulness of these journal entries to others, as articulations of suffering that we often cannot voice ourselves. Though academically rigorous and methodical, the book also makes for fascinating and highly compelling reading. Whilst rightly careful to discourage a reading of Plath's entire published creative output through a simplistic biographical lens, Demjén's evaluation of these journals validates our instinct to regard Plath's depression as relevant to an understanding of the writer and her work.

- Rachel Kelly, author of 'Black Rainbow: how words healed me - my journey through depression',

This book is a major incursion of a linguist into the realms of clinical psychology and psychopathology and one which I welcome. It lays down very well the variety of tools discourse analysis offers in helping understand the experiences which have hitherto been the domain of mental health care professionals.

- Dariusz Galasinski, Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK,

This is a rich, timely and fascinating book. Zsófia Demjén deftly and intricately combines methodological and analytical approaches in order to examine, with true rigour and insight, the language of one of the 20th Century's most powerfully and disturbingly eloquent stylists. Focusing on Plath's intimate and affecting 'Smith Journal', Demjén systematically explores the interface between emotional turmoil and its textual encoding, revealing how this alluringly manneristic writer harnesses the resources of language in order to articulate profound psychological distress. <i>Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States</i> will be of interest to students and scholars of literature and language, not to mention the more general reader piqued by all things Plath.

- Kevin Harvey, Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham, UK,

Focusing on the first journal in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, this book writes a convincing case for the value of corpus-based stylistics and narrative psychology in the analysis of representations of the experience of affective states. Situated at the intersection between language study, psychology and healthcare, this study of the personal writing of a poet and novelist showcases a cutting-edge combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, including metaphor analysis, corpus methods, and second person narration. Techniques that systematically account for representations of experiences of affective states, such as those in this book, are rare and crucial in improving understanding of these experiences. The findings and methods of this book therefore potentially have bearing on the study, diagnosis and treatment of depression and other mental illnesses. Zsófia Demjén follows the cognitive turn in both literary studies and linguistics here, emerging with a greater understanding of Plath, her diarized output and her experience of her inner world.
Les mer
List of Abbreviations List of Concordances List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part I – Background to the Study 2. Sylvia Plath and her Journals 3. Language and Affective States – Setting the Theoretical Scene 4. Linguistic Characteristics of the Smith Journal - Corpus Analysis I Part II – Zooming In: Investigating Key Linguistic Features 5. Self-description and Direct References to Affective States 6. Affective States and Metaphor 7. You and Plath 8. Investigating Second-person Entries Further - Corpus Analysis II 9. So What? References Index
Les mer
Demonstrates corpus-based stylistics and narrative psychology in the representation and codification of mental states, applied to literary fiction and biography.
Asks and answers the question, 'How does the language of written texts of a personal nature convey the writer’s mental states?'
Advances in Stylistics provides student resources and research material in cutting-edge stylistics. It forgoes traditional boundaries to encompass the study of both literary and non-literary texts, and covers exciting new developments in the field. It takes a broad view of stylistics as the practice of using linguistic methodologies and analytical frameworks to facilitate the analysis of texts of all genres and types, for the purpose of explaining why we interpret texts in the way that we do. Books in the series address such topics as stylistic theory, discourse analysis, language and cognition, literary genre, corpus stylistics, the analysis of historical texts, pedagogical stylistics, multimodality and stylistic methodologies. The series further develops stylistic and linguistic theory, to demonstrate the application and value of stylistic tools of analysis and further consolidate stylistics as a major study and research area within language studies. Editorial Board Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UK Beatrix Busse, University of Heidelberg, Germany Szilvia Csábi, Independent Scholar Yaxiao Cui, University of Nottingham, UK Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg, Germany Lesley Jeffries, University of Huddersfield, UK Manuel Jobert, Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3, France Lorenzo Mastropierro, University of Nottingham, UK Eric Rundquist, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile Larry Stewart, College of Wooster, USA Odette Vassallo, University of Malta, Malta Peter Verdonk, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USA
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474212663
Publisert
2015-08-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
531 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Demjén, Zsófia

Biographical note

Zsófia Demjén is Lecturer of English Language and Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK.

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