{"product_id":"experiencing-ways-through-words-emily-abdeni-holman-9783031549519","title":"Experiencing Ways Through Words: On Our Relationships with Language (and So Literature)","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Abdeni-Holman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031549511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031549519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Emily Abdeni-Holman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47087727509759,"sku":"9783031549519","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08b87bd3-0943-414f-9a75-19162a198990.jpg?v=1753850621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/experiencing-ways-through-words-emily-abdeni-holman-9783031549519","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}