{"product_id":"9783031549519","title":"Experiencing Ways Through Words On Our Relationships with Language (and so Literature)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eExperiencing Ways Through Words\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eOn Our Relationships with Language (and so Literature)\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEmily Abdeni-Holman\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\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\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29 August 2025\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783031549519\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e332\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44309804351628,"sku":"9783031549519","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031549519.jpg?v=1781060121","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031549519","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}