Description:
Explores the complex functioning of pronouns as part of the linguistic nuances of perspectives and positioning in literary texts
Advances current scholarship on narrative voices and articulations of perspective
Draws out underlying themes including reader engagement, the plurality of voices and worlds, metafictionality, ambiguity and unreliability, the problematisation of subjectivity and the ethical implications of subjective relationships
Review Quotes: "when going through Pronouns in Literature: Positions and Perspectives in Language, readers will find themselves on a magical tour of communicating with characters and narrators in literary texts of different times and regions. Due to the unique character and the flexible facet of pronouns in literature, this innovative volume will definitely appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, theoretical and applied linguistics, stylistics and cognitive poetics, psychology, narratology and literary criticism." (Yanli Jia, Language and Literature, August, 2018)