Books
Language and Creative Illusion. London: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.Designs in Prose. English Language Series, 12. London: Longman, 1980.
English Usage: A Guide to First Principles. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.
Jargon: Its Uses and Abuses. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993.
The Language of Humour: Style and Technique in Comic Discourse. English Language Series, 16. London: Longman, 1985.
Our Experience of Language. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1971.
Rhetoric: The Wit of Persuasion. Oxford: Basil Black-well, 1989.
The Writing Scholar: Studies in Academic Discourse, ed. Written Communica-tion Annual, 3. Newbury Park, Califor-nia: Sage, 1990.
An Uncommon Tongue: The Uses and Resources of English. London: Routledge, 1992.
Co-authored Works
Carter, Ronald, and Walter Nash. Seeing Through Language: A Guide to Styles of English Writing. Oxford: Basil Black-well, 1990.
Nash, Walter and David Stacey. Creating Texts: An Introduction to the Study of Composition. London and New York: Longman, 1997.
Novels, Poetry and Short Stories
Kettle of Roses. London: Hutchinson, 1982.
"Speak Like a Native." Stand 18 (1), 1976.
NOBUS NATUS: Sonnets and Songs for a Nativity. A Nondum Print. Walter Nash, 1997.
Translations
Sandblad, Nils Gosta. Manet, Three Studies in Artistic Concep-tion. Lund, Sweden: Publications of the New Society of Letters at Lund, 1954.
Monographs
Daegboc Anes Nathwaes and the Werkes of Umffrey [A Jeu d'Esprit] . [N.P.], 1985.
The Poetics of Idyll: Studies in Tennyson's Narrative Workmanship. Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1972.
Scholarly Articles
"Changing the Guard at Elsinore." Language, Discourse and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics. Ed. Ronald Carter and Paul Simpson. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. 23-41.
"Composition and Creativeness." Stylistics and Pragmatics. Ed. W. Van Peer and J. Renkema. Louvain: Acco, 1984. 255-290.
"`Diffugere nives': On Englishing Horace." Language and Literature 2:1 (1993): 19-36.
"Horace and 'In Memoriam'." Neophilologus. [N.P] Wolters-Noordhoff [N.D.]: 466-75.
"Investigating the Translation Process." Interface: Journal of Applied Linguistics 6:1 (1991): 3-22.
"Language and Literariness." Prose Studies 6:2 (September 1983): 123-141.
"The Lyrical Game: C. Day Lewis's `Last Words'." Twentieth Century Poetry: From Text to Context. Ed. Peter Verdonk. London: Routledge, 1993: 46-56.
"On a Passage from Lawrence's `Odour of Chrysanthemums'." Ed. Ronald Carter. Language and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Stylistics. London: Allen and Unwin, 1982.
101-122. "The Possibilities of Paraphrase." Eds. C.J. Brumfit and R.A. Carter. Literature and Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
"Rhetoric, Language, and Thought." Eds. Christopher S. Butler,Richard A. Cardwell and Joanna Channel. Language and Literature--Theory and Practice: A Tribute to Walter Grauberg. University of Nottingham: Department of Linguis-tics, 1989. 126-137.
"Sound and the Pattern of Poetic Meaning." Linguistics and the Study of Literature. Ed. Theo D'haen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1986. 128-151.
"The Stuff These People Write." Introduction. The Writing Scholar. Ed. Walter Nash. Written Communication Annual, Vol. 3. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1990. 8-30.
"Tennysonian Topography." Studies in Honour of Kenneth Cameron. Leeds Studies in English, Series XVII (1987). Eds. Thorlac Turville-Petre and Margaret Gelling. University of Leeds, School of English, 1987. 55-69.
"Usage, Users and the Used: Some Reflections on Contemporary English." Eds. Bunt, G.H.V. et al. One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987. 29-46.
"What Simon Says: A Note on the Semantics of Authority." ETC.: A Review of General Semantics. 31:2: 149-157.
Contributions to Reference Works
"Humour." The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Ed. Tom McArthur. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 486-89.
Book Reviews and Occasional Pieces
"Cold Winds." Rev. of Answered Prayers by Truman Capote, A Rich Full Death by Michael Dibdin, Leaning in the Wind by P.H. Newby, and The Way-Paver by Anne Devlin. The London Review of Books 18 December 1986: 19-20.
"Dictionary Standards: The Ultimate Arbitrator." Wordpower Part 2: Our Heritage. London: Sunday Times, 1993: 18-19.
"English's History: The History of the Language." Wordpower Part2: Our Heritage. London: Sunday Times, 1993: 10-15.
"Father Bosco to Africa." Rev. of The Red Men by Patrick McGinley, Chat Show by Terence de Vere White, Leaden Wings by Zhang Jie (translated by Gladys Yang), Russian Novel by Edward Kuznetsov), and Richard Robertovich.) London Review of Books 5 February 1987: 22-23.
"Fits and Excursions." Rev. of The Complete Plain Words by Ernest Gower, and Educational Linguistics by Michael Stubbs. London Review of Books 7 August 1986: 26-7.
"Interesting Fellows." Rev. of The Book of Evidence by John Banville, Carn by Patrick McCabe, The Tryst by Michael Dibdin, and Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson. London Review of Books 4 May 1989: 22-23.
"Language Fears." Rev. of Good English and the Grammarian by Sidney Greenbaum, Longman Guide to English Usage by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut, and Words in Time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary by Geoffrey Hughes. London Review of Books 19 January 1989: 16-17.
"A Messiah in the Family." Rev. of Kingdom Come by Bernice Rubens, The Other Side by Mary Gordon, The Alchemist by Mark Illis, and The Way You Tell Them: A Yarn of the Nineties by Alan Brownjohn. London Review of Books 8 February 1990: 18-19.
"Monsieur Mangetout." Rev. of The Guinness Book of Records 1990, ed. Donald McFarlan, and The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings: Lists in Literature, ed. Francis Spufford. London Review of Books 7 December 1989: 23-4.
"Noam's Ark." Rev. of The Twitter Machine by Neil Smith, and English in Use by Randolph Quirk and Gabriele Stein. London Review of Books 25 October 1990: 26.
"Only God Speaks Kamassian." Rev. of The World's Major Languages, ed. Bernard Comrie, Studies in Lexicography, ed. Robert Burchfield, Van Winkle's Return: Change in American English 1966-1986 by Kenneth Wilson, Words at Work: Lectures on Textual Structure, by Randolph Quirk, and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal. London Review of Books 7 January 1988: 22-23.
"Other Indias." Rev. of Ice-Candy-Man by Bapsi Sidhwa, Mistaken Identity by Nayantara Sahgal, and Baumgartner's Bombay. London Review of Books 15 September 1988: 19-20.
"Truly Terrifying Things." Rev. of 51 Soko: To the Islands on the Other Side of the World by Michael Westlake, Behind the Waterfall by Chinatsy Nakayama, and Dirty Faxes, and Other Stories by Andrew Davies. London Review of Books 10 January 1991: 20-21.
"Turbulence." Rev. of The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker, The Memoirs of Lord Byron by Robert Nye, All You Need by Elaine Feinstein, The Woman Who Talked to Herself by A.L. Barker, and Restoration by Rose Tremain. London Review of Books 9 November 1989: 22-3.
"Uncomplimentary Words for An Old Man." Rev. of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, ed. T.F. Hoad, Dictionary of Changes in Meaning by Adrian Room, The Story of English by Robert McCrum et al., and Dictionary of American Regional English Volume 1, ed. Frederic Cassidy. London Review of Books 5 March 1987: 22-23.
Articles and Chapters about Walter Nash and Reviews of His Work
Barry, P. "Stylistics and the Logic of Intuition; Or How Not to Pick a Chrysanthemum." Critical Quarterly 27.4 (1984): 51-8.
- Barry takes Nash to task for "confusing grammar with meaning" in Nash's article on Lawrence's "The Odour Chrysanthemums."
Birch, David. Language, Literature and Critical Practice. London: Routledge, 1989.
- Birch defends Nash's linguistic analysis of Lawrence's short story from Barry's instrumentalist attack upon it.
Brewer, Charlotte. "Good Enough for Jesus." Rev. of Rhetoric: the Wit of Persuasion. London Review of Books 25 January 1990: 9-12.
Byatt, A.S. (Review of Designs in Prose)
Dillon, George. (Review of The Language of Popular Fiction)
Andrew Goatly, Andrew. Critical Reading and Writing: Uncovering Ideology. Forthcoming, Routledge.
- Goatly makes much use of Nash's paragraph schemes from Designs in Prose, and Goatly's chapter on "Fiction and Feminism" draws upon Nash's Language in Popular Fiction.
- Laura Chao-chih Liao at Feng Chia University in Taiwan, lectures on the use of humour to teach cross cultural understanding. She relies upon Nash's descriptions of the dynamics of humour in The Language of Humour
Kobler, T.S. Rev. of Rhetoric: The Wit of Persuasion. Choice 28(October 1990): 302.
Pope, Rob. Textual Intervention. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
- Pope bases an important part of his intertextual method of interpretation upon the question Nash addresses in An Uncommon Tongue as the source of "all imaginative writing": "`What if...' (the text were different?)." Pope also makes use of Nash's ideas on parody and paraphrase throughout.
Simpson, Paul. Language, Ideology and Point of View. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
- Simpson discusses Nash's analyses of style and tone in popular fiction, and Nash's terms "meronymic" (body part) agency and "holonymic" (complete body) agency.
Tzanne, Angeliki. Rev. Language in Popular Fiction. Language and Literature 2.1 (1993): 67-70.
Wales, Katie. "Current Trends in Rhetoric." Moderna Sprak. Modern Language Teachers' Association of Sweden. LXXXVII, Number 1, 1993.
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