This undergraduate textbook introduces English literature students to the application of linguistics to literary analysis.

This volume deals with contemporary issues in the field of English studies in order to exchange ideas and experiences across the fields of English language and

Linguistics and Literature is the first book to offer an overview of how linguistic theory can be applied to the oral and written literatures of the world

Directions in Empirical Literary Studies is on the cutting edge of empirical studies and is a much needed volume. It both widens the scope of empirical studies

Spitzer discusses the method he evolved for bringing together the two disciplines, linguistics and literary history, and examines the work of Cervantes, Racine,