TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of style in reader-involvement
T2 - Deictic shifting in contemporary poems
AU - Jeffries, Lesley
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - This article investigates the language of two contrasting contemporary poems in English: "Mittens" by Peter Sansom and "Pain tells you what to wear" by Mebdh McGuckian. The different experiences of reading them are explored using concepts drawn from the narrative theories of Emmott (1997), deictic shift theory (see McIntyre 2006), and blending theory (see Dancygier 2005), with the aim of explaining some of the apparent differences of reader-involvement. Questions of identity and reference are raised in relation to the use of pronouns in such poems, the potential effects of blending of deictic centres is explored and the different literary effects of bringing the reader into the deictic centre or voiding the deictic centre are discussed.
AB - This article investigates the language of two contrasting contemporary poems in English: "Mittens" by Peter Sansom and "Pain tells you what to wear" by Mebdh McGuckian. The different experiences of reading them are explored using concepts drawn from the narrative theories of Emmott (1997), deictic shift theory (see McIntyre 2006), and blending theory (see Dancygier 2005), with the aim of explaining some of the apparent differences of reader-involvement. Questions of identity and reference are raised in relation to the use of pronouns in such poems, the potential effects of blending of deictic centres is explored and the different literary effects of bringing the reader into the deictic centre or voiding the deictic centre are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1515/jlse.2008.005
DO - 10.1515/jlse.2008.005
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:57749142194
VL - 37
SP - 69
EP - 85
JO - Journal of Literary Semantics
JF - Journal of Literary Semantics
SN - 0341-7638
IS - 1
ER -