Overview

Stylistics : is a comprehensive introduction to literary stylistics covers the core areas, including register, dialect, vocabulary, grammar, sound and rhythm, speech and thought, narrative, dialogue, metaphor and meaning draws on a range of literary texts, from Ernest Hemingway and D.H. Lawrence to Sylvia Plath, Roger McGough and Irvine Welsh provides classic readings by the key names in the discipline, including Derek Attridge, Ronald Carter and Walter Nash, Roger Fowler and Mick Short. An accompanying website will be launched to coincide with publication of the book.

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Author:   Paul Simpson (Queen's University Belfast, UK) ,  Paul Simpson (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9780415281041

ISBN 10:   0415281040
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   20 May 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780415644969
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

A Introduction Key Concepts in Stylistics 1. What is stylistics? 2.Stylistics and levels of language 3.Grammar and Style 4. Rhythm and metre 5.Narrative stylistics 6. Style as choice 7.Style and point of view 8.Representing speech and thought 9. Dialogue and discourse 10. Cognitive stylistics 11. Metaphor and metonymy 12. Stylistics and verbal humour B Development Doing Stylistics 1.Developments in stylistics 2.Levels of language at work: an example from poetry 3.Sentence styles: development and illustration 4.Interpreting patterns of sound 5. Developments in structural narratology 6. Style and transitivity 7.Approaches to point of view 8. Techniques of speech and thought presentation 9. Dialogue in drama 10. Developments in cognitive stylistics 11. Styles of metaphor C Exploration: investigating style 1. Is there a 'literary language'? 2.Style, register and dialect 3.Grammar and genre: a short study in Imagism 4. Styles in a single poem: an exploration 5. A sociolinguistic model of narrative 6. Transitivity, characterisation and literary genre 7. Exploring point of view in narrative fiction 8. A workshop on speech and thought presentation 9. Exploring dialogue 10. Cognitive Stylistics at work 11.Exploring metaphors in different kinds of texts D Extension: readings in stylistics 1. Language and literature 2. Style and verbal play 3. Teaching grammar and style 4. Sound, style and onomatopoeia 5. Style variation in narrative 6. Transitivity at work: a feminist-stylistic application 7.Point of view 8. Speech and thought presentation 9. Literature as discourse: the literary speech situation 10. Cognitive stylistics: the poetry of Emily Dickinson 11.Cognitive stylistics and the theory of metaphor 12. Style and verbal humour

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