Reading beyond the code : literature and relevance theory / Terence Cave and Deirdre Wilson.

Reading beyond the code : literature and relevance theory / Terence Cave and Deirdre Wilson.

First edition.

9780191836268 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

PN54

801.41

This title explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples - lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton - nine of the ten essays are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as a broad framing perspective and as a resource for detailed analysis. The final essay, by Deirdre Wilson, co-founder (with Dan Sperber) of relevance theory, takes a retrospective view of the issues addressed by the volume and considers the implications of literary studies for cognitive approaches to communication.

This title explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples - lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton - nine of the ten essays are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as a broad framing perspective and as a resource for detailed analysis. The final essay, by Deirdre Wilson, co-founder (with Dan Sperber) of relevance theory, takes a retrospective view of the issues addressed by the volume and considers the implications of literary studies for cognitive approaches to communication.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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