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In:The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics
Edited by John Douthwaite, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 28] 2017
► pp. 191–232

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Chapter 10
The agency of The Hungry Tide

An ecostylistic analysis

Published online: 7 December 2017
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the aims and scope and methodological underpinnings of ecostylistics, against the background of ecocriticism, ecolinguistics and stylistics. The theoretical and methodological frameworks outlined in the first section of the study are subsequently applied to the analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide (2005[2004]). More specifically, a close ecostylistic reading of three extracts from the novel through Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG; Halliday & Matthiessen 2014[1985]) will be functional to unveiling the power hierarchy built up in the texts between human and non-human Participants.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Background and aims
  • 2.Theoretical and methodological framework
  • 3. The Hungry Tide as a case study in ecostylistics
  • 4. The Hungry Tide : Ecostylistic analysis
    • 4.1Overview of THT : Contextualisation
    • 4.2Ecostylistic analysis
      • 4.2.1Text 1
      • 4.2.2Text 2
      • 4.2.3Text 3
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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