| Title | : | Stylistics |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Richard Bradford |
| Release | : | 2013-03-04 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Literary Criticism, Books, Fiction & Literature, Reference, Foreign Languages, Linguistics, Historical Fiction, Words & Language |
| Size | : | 851695 |
| 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. |
