Style : text analysis and linguistic criticism
Material type: TextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1996Description: xxii, 294 pISBN: 0333468767 (hardcover); 9780333468760 ; 0333468775 (Paperback); 9780333468777Subject(s): English language -- Style | English literature -- History and criticism | English literatureDDC classification: 410 | 428Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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