Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts

Introduces an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds: the contexts scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their inter-action with the language of texts. The book demonstrates through the analysis of British and American poems and non-poetic tetxs three ways of approaching poetic text worlds namely as discourse situations possible-worlds and mental constructs. Clear and detailed introductions to linguistic theories of definiteness and deixis possible-world theory and schema theory are included making the book accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with these frameworks.