Stylistics

Informationen zum Autor Richard Bradford Klappentext Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis.This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines:* the terminology of literary form* how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century* the role of stylistics in twentieth century criticism* the discipline of stylistics from classical rhetoric to post-structuralism* the relationship between literary style and its historical context* style and gender* examples of poems, plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day. Zusammenfassung A definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part I: A Short History of Stylistics 1. Rhetoric 2. Stylistics and Modern Criticism 3. Textualism I: Poetry 4. Textualism II: The Novel 5. Contextualist Stylistics Part II: Stylistics and Literary History 6. Renaissance and Augustan Poetry 7. Literary Style and Literary History 8. Shakespeare's Drama: Two Stylistic Registers 9. The Eighteenth and Nineteentn Century Novel 10. Romanticism 11. Modernism and Naturalization Part III: 12. Gender and Genre 13. Evaluative Stylistics

Product details

• Authors: R. Bradford, Richard Bradford, Richard (University of Ulster Bradford, Richard (University of Ulster At Colerai Bradford, Richard (University of Ulster at Coleraine Bradford, Bradford Richard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.1997
• EAN: 9780415097680
• ISBN: 978-0-415-09768-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The New Critical Idiom; New Critical Idiom (Hardcover); The New Critical Idiom
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Discourse Analysis, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics