(Ebook) Pronouns in Literature: Positions and Perspectives in Language by Alison Gibbons, Andrea Macrae (eds.) ISBN 9781349953165, 9781349953172, 1349953164, 1349953172

(Ebook) Pronouns in Literature: Positions and Perspectives in Language by Alison Gibbons, Andrea Macrae (eds.) ISBN 9781349953165, 9781349953172, 1349953164, 1349953172

This edited collection brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who together offer cutting-edge insights into the complex roles, functions, and effects of pronouns in literary texts. The book engages with a range of text-types, including poetry, drama, and prose from different periods and regions, in English and in translation. Beginning with analyses of the first-person pronoun, it moves onto studies of the subject dynamics of first- and second-person, before considering plural modes of narration and how pronoun use can help to disperse narrative perspective. The volume then debates the functional constraints of pronouns in fictional contexts and finally reflects upon the theoretical advancements presented in the collection. This innovative volume will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, stylistics and cognitive poetics, narratology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology and literary criticism.