Corpus-assisted literary evaluation

Author： O'Halloran Kieran  

Publisher： Edinburgh University Press

ISSN： 1755-1676

Source： Corpora, Vol.2, Iss.1, 2007-05, pp. : 33-63

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Abstract

Abstract Fleur Adcock's poem, Street Song, is evaluated by the stylistician, Roger Fowler, as ‘dynamic and disturbing’. I agree with his literary evaluation. These unsettling effects take place in initial response to the poem, effects which draw me into the work. In other words, they are experienced before proper reflection and analysis of the poem and individual interpretation of it. Implicit within Fowler's evaluation is that this is likely to apply for readers generally. The purpose of this article is to show how empirical corpus evidence can usefully provide substantiation of such initial evaluations of literary works, showing whether or not they are likely to be stereotypically experienced by readers. In drawing on both schema theory and corpus analysis to achieve this, the article makes links between cognitive stylistic and corpus stylistic foci.

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