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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 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. 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
