Overview

Documenting the significant impact of linguistic theory on literary studies, this text comprises a collection of key essays and writings which mark the development of stylistics as a discipline, from its formalistic beginnings to the contextualized, discourse-based approaches practised today. The readings are arranged in eight sections, each of which introduces a particular approach: formalist, functionalist, affective, pedagogical, pragmatic, critical, feminist and cognitive. The extracts have been chosen as relevant examples of stylistics, and the collection is prefaced by an extensive editorial introduction which provides an overview of the area, places each piece in its context, and clarifies main points.

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Author:   Jean Jaques Weber
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Hodder Arnold
Dimensions:   Width: 23.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780340646212

ISBN 10:   0340646217
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 December 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Towards contexualized stylistics - an overview; closing statement - linguistics and poetics; closing statement - linguistics and poetics in retrospect; linguistic function and literary style - an enquiry into the language of William Golding's The Inheritors ; recent trends in stylistics; what is stylistics and why are they saying such terrible things about it?; style and its discontents - or, getting off the Fish hook ; stylistics - an approach to stylistic analysis; study strategies in the teaching of literature to foreign students; discourse analysis and the analysis of drama; the ideology of speech-act theory; studying literature as language; working effects with words - whose words? - stylistics and reader intertextuality; through glass darkly - through dark glasses; knowing your place - a Marxist feminist stylistic analysis; on verbal irony; according to my bond - King Lear and re-cognition.

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