Interface: Language in Literary Studies

`A linguist deaf to the poetic function of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistic problems and unconversant with linguistic methods, are equally flagrant anachronisms.' - Roman Jakobson

This statement, made over twenty-five years ago, is no less relevant today, and `flagrant anachronisms' still abound. Routledge, working in conjunction with the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and its chair, Ronald Carter, has developed the Interface series to examine topics at the `interface' of language studies and literary criticism, and in so doing, to build bridges between these traditionally divided disciplines.

`Literary linguistics is a firmly established interdisciplinary field ... The Interface series offers students and teachers a rich range of new and revealing perspectives on both traditional and contemporary literary topics.' - Roger Fowler, University of East Anglia

`On the planes of theory, description and classroom practice this series will do much to support and enhance work at the interface of language and literature.' - M.A.K. Halliday, Sydney University