Linguistic and Literary Theories in Reading

Feryal Cubukcu and Leyla Harputlu are professors at Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir (Turkey). Their shared main interests are language teaching, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, and critical reading.

The purpose of this book is to present to scholars, students and enthusiasts in the fields of literature and linguistics a way to study a text analytically. Reading is multi-faceted and shaped by contexts, participants, and technologies. The ways of reading tackled most enthusiastically in this book are interpretations which show active involvement of readers: Each literary or linguistic approach can be compared to a window through which we see, grapple, comprehend, personalize and internalize the text, hence the world.

Reading is multi-faceted and shaped by contexts, participants, and technologies. Because of its multi-faceted nature, many theories of reading which tackle different perspectives to texts have been proposed. The purpose of this book is to grapple with issues on linguistic and literary theories in reading.

Contents: Selami Aydin: Reading and Language Teaching - Ceyhun Yükselir: Reading Skills and Strategies - Leyla Harputlu: Creative Reading - Zennure Koseman: New Criticism and Ernest Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - Violetta Trofimova: Russian Formalism and Reading - Meryem Ayan: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of The Portrait of A Lady - Feryal Cubukcu: A Jungian Archetypal Analysis of The Iliad - Feryal Cubukcu: A Deconstructionist Reading of Goblin Market - B. Ayça Ulker Erkan: A New Historicist Reading of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - Meryem Ayan: A Feminist Analysis of The Awakening - Burak Irmak: Changing Masculinities and Femininities: A Comparative Analysis of Bridget Jones's Diary and Pride and Prejudice - Dilek Inan: A Reader-Response Approach to Reading Martin Crimp's The Country - Dilek Inan: A Geocritical Reading of Harold Pinter's Ashes To Ashes - Nazan Tutas: Stylistics and Reading - Krunoslav Mikulan/Vladimir Legac: Free Indirect Discourse and Reading - Catherine Wong: Cognitive Poetics in the analysis of narrative of Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills - Laya Heidari Darani: Systemic Functional Linguistics as an Analytical Tool in Reading Comprehension.