The New Critical Idiom : Stylistics
The New Critical Idiom : Stylistics
Publisher: Routledge | 1997 | ISBN-10: 041509769X | ISBN-13: 978 0415097697 | English | True PDF | 240 pages | 1.44 Mb
Publisher: Routledge | 1997 | ISBN-10: 041509769X | ISBN-13: 978 0415097697 | English | True PDF | 240 pages | 1.44 Mb
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.
The New Critical Idiom : Stylistics
