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Sometimes people motivate you, sometimes they challenge you, sometimes they inspire you, and sometimes they do all three at once. Ruqaiya Hasan falls into the last category. It is impossible to capture the huge impact that her work has had and will continue to have on a wide range of people and areas of research. In this volume, we attempt to show just a small snapshot of her impact on the study of verbal art.
On Verbal Art reflects on and celebrates the contribution that Professor Ruqaiya Hasan made to research on linguistic approaches to verbal art and includes contributions by scholars from around the world. The volume gathers together researchers with different perspectives, different views and different approaches to verbal art and aims to provide an inspiration to others to continue the work that Hasan began.
One of the lasting insights emerging from Hasan's work on verbal art is the extent to which it informs analysis and theory. This volume brings together chapters that offer a detailed account of Hasan's contribution to the study of verbal art, chapters that pay tribute to Hasan by adopting some of her central notions such as foregrounding, symbolic articulation, theme and secondary semiosis to inform their analyses, chapters that take Hasan's thinking as a starting point to explore new methodological approaches for the investigation of verbal art, and finally chapters by scholars who are new to Hasanian thinking and afford fresh perspectives that build bridges to related approaches.
It is also hoped that this volume will encourage new research and promote the reading or re-reading of Hasan's tremendous work in this area. We look forward to new challenges, arguments, extensions and applications.
Contents
Introduction: Ripples in a Timeless World
Rebekah Wegener, Stella Neumann and Antje Oesterle
1. Language, Linguistics and Verbal Art: The Contribution of Ruqaiya Hasan to the Study of Literature
Annabelle Lukin, Macquarie University
2. On Being a Literature Teacher: A Language Based Perspective
David Butt, Macquarie University
3. Software-assisted Systemic Socio-semantic Stylistics: Appraising tru* in J.M. Coetzee's Foe
Donna R. Miller and Antonella Luporini, both at the University of Bologna
4. The Analysis of a Sonnet
Kathryn Tuckwell, Macquarie University
5. Foregrounding and Symbolic Articulation in Peter Carey's Conversations with Unicorns
Martin Tilney, Macquarie University
6. Simone de Beauvoir's Construal of Language and Literature in Memoires d'une Jeune Fille Rangee (1958): A Hasanian Perspective
Alice Caffarel-Cayron, University of Sydney
7. Jane Austen's Shapley Sentence and the Differentiation of Dialogue from Narrative: Towards a Clause Complex of Her Own
Fang Li, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul
8. Appraisal and Master Identities in Contemporary Spanish Crime fiction: The Case of Los Mares del Sur and its Translations into English and German
Anna Espunya, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
9. Striking a Chord on the Reader: On Metaphor as a Constituent of the Grammar of Verbal Art
Timo Lothmann, RWTH Aachen University
10. Openings in Fiction: An Approach to Verbal Art Based on Hallidayian, Cognitive and Hasanian Principles
Peter Wenzel, RWTH Aachen University
11. `That's Not Normal Rabbit Behaviour': On the Track of the Grammar of Fictional Worlds
Rebekah Wegener and Timo Lothmann
12. Future Directions in the Study of Verbal Art
Wendy L. Bowcher, Sun Yat-sen University, China
