Style : text analysis and linguistic criticism

Freeborn, Dennis ;

Style : text analysis and linguistic criticism - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1996. - xxii, 294 p. :

Included Bibliography, Index.

1. What is Style? --
2. Words --
3. New Words for Old --
4. Words and Grammar in Prose Texts I --
5. Words and Grammar in Prose Texts II --
6. Traditional Rhetoric --
7. Rhetorical Style --
8. Writing Without Style --
9. Words and Grammar in Prose Texts III --
Two Nineteenth-Century Classics --
10. Words and Grammar in Verse --
11. Prose Translations --
12. Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound I --
Patterns of Stress and Rhythm --
13. Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound II --
Heightening and Foregrounding --
14. Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound III --
15. Poetic Prose --
16. Verse Translation --
17. First Person Narrative --
18. The Spoken Voice --
19. Original and Simplified Texts --
20. Parody and Pastiche --
21. Styles of News Reporting --
Index of texts quoted and used for stylistic analysis.

This new coursebook offers teachers and students a thorough and lively guide to stylistic and critical analysis of a range of texts, both literary and non-literary, classic and contemporary. Full of examples and exercises, this is an invaluable book for all students of English language and its usage.

0333468767 (hardcover) 9780333468760 0333468775 (Paperback) 9780333468777


English language -- Style.
English literature -- History and criticism.
English literature.

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