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Title Style, rhetoric and creativity in language : in memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015) / edited by Paul Simpson, Liverpool University
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages)
Series Linguistic approaches to literature (LAL), 1569-3112 ; volume 34
Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 34.
Contents "Warmth of thought" in Walter Nash's prose and verse / Susan Cockcroft and Robert Cockcroft -- Chrysanthemums for Bill: on Lawrentian style and stylistics / Peter Stockwell -- The doubling of design in Walter Nash's Rhetoric: The wit of persuasion / David Stacey -- Riddling: The dominant rhetorical device in W.H. Auden's "The wanderer" / Peter Verdonk -- "My Shakespeare, rise": Ben Jonson's pronominal choices in "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author" (1623) / Clara Calvo -- Discourse presentation and point of view in "Cheating at canasta" by William Trevor / Mick Short -- Doing and teaching: from Kettle of roses to Language and creative illusion and back again / Michael Toolin -- Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy / Michael Stubbs -- Common language: corpus, creativity and cognition / Ronald Carter -- "Americans don't do irony": cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony / Paul Simpson -- Poem. Defunct address / Robert Cockcroft
Summary "This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar--a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his analyses of the rhetorical composition of everyday English usage, and his published outputs embrace the stylistic, rhetorical, compositional and creative topographies of both language and literature. The contributions that comprise this volume are all by well-known scholars in the field and each essay celebrates Nash's prodigious offering by covering the academic fields with which he was particularly associated. These fields include composition, rhetoric, discourse analysis, English usage, comic discourse, creative writing and the stylistic exploration of literature from the Old English period to that of the present day"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2019)
Subject Nash, Walter -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Nash, Walter fast
Subject Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Rhetoric
Creative writing.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
literary criticism.
rhetoric (discipline)
Creative writing
Discourse analysis, Literary
Literature -- Theory, etc.
Rhetoric
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Simpson, Paul, editor
Nash, Walter, honouree
LC no. 2019030625
ISBN 9789027261953
9027261954