{"product_id":"experiencing-ways-through-words-on-our-relationships-with-language-and-so-literature-9783031549519","title":"Experiencing Ways Through Words: On Our Relationships with Language (and So Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe tend to think of ourselves \u003cem\u003eusing \u003c\/em\u003elanguage. What if we thought instead about language \u003cem\u003eworking on us, \u003c\/em\u003eor about language as something we \u003cem\u003eexperience \u003c\/em\u003erather than \u003cem\u003emake use of\u003c\/em\u003e? This book explores the generative capacities of language, suggesting that we need to pay much greater attention to the meaning-making capabilities, and political and moral implications, of more intangible aspects of language: atmosphere, mood, texture, the mode-of-being a use of language carries -- and not only carries, but gives off, sends into both its reader and writer. Advancing an interpretation of language as fundamentally attitudinal and creative, \u003cem\u003e Experiencing Ways Through Words \u003c\/em\u003eexplores literature\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ein the light of such thinking, claiming that properties we tend to sideline as 'aesthetic' are profoundly constitutive of a text's capacity for significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Emily Abdeni-Holman is a writer and critic. She read for her doctorate in literature at the University of Oxford. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eBody Tectonic\u003c\/em\u003e, on Lebanon's socioeconomic crisis, is an experiment in exploring structural disaster through poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51648914325778,"sku":"9783031549519","price":128.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_13395f1d-6ed0-4721-a034-65e750f0b1f6.jpg?v=1759838261","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/experiencing-ways-through-words-on-our-relationships-with-language-and-so-literature-9783031549519","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}