Stylistics
| By: | Richard Bradford |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415097697 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781134860685 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1997 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.