Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages.
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"...;an excellent instance of successful assimilation of linguistic method into literary studies via the stylistics interface." STYLE "...;represents a very solid distillation of many years of teaching, writing and reflection on the established topics of literary stylistics." Journal of Sociolinguistics "The latest book by Mick Short shows that stylistics is alive and kicking." Greta 'Clearly, this is an impressive and valuable book.' Language and Literature, 1998.
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great introduction to stylistics,
This review is from: Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays, and Prose (Learning about Language) (Paperback)
I read this book during the summer before beginning a Master's in stylistics. At the time I knew very little about stylistics (only that it's main focus was on linguistic analysis of literature), methods of stlyistic analysis, or recent research in stylistics. This book was a life-saver!
Short is a leading authority in the area of stylistics, and he writes in a manner that is clear and unlikely to cause confusion or consternation. He introduces all the most basic methods of stlystic analysis, using plenty of examples to clarify the theories. Introductory exercises are given and discussed at the end of each chapter, so the serious student can get started on some basic stylistic analysis of texts. One of the best things about this book is the "checksheet" provided at the end of each chapter. Short summarizes the main points talked about in each chapter and presents them in a checklist format, along with questions to hone in on specific aspects of each point. These checklists make it easy to begin your own stylistic analysis of any text, getting straight into the text from the very beginning.
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speech presentation continuum, phonaesthetic series, loose alliteration, one addresser, graphological deviation, tabled fertility rites, lecture schema, foregrounded features, reporting clause, internal deviation, silent stress, conversational genre, reported clause, metrical reading, authorial style, relation maxim, deictic centre, conversational behaviour, quality maxim, lexical repetition, fictional prose, speech act analysis, style variation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Direct Speech, Lady Macbeth, William Shakespeare, Message Addressee, Miss Piffs, Lady Bracknell, James Joyce, Ted Hughes, Harold Pinter, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Philip Larkin, Free Indirect, John Fowles, Sir Bedivere, Michael Furey, The London Merchant, Standard English, Bleak House, Gilda Gray, Oscar Wilde, Lady Capulet, Lord Decimus, Little Nell, Parson Noah Browse Sample Pages:
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speech presentation continuum, phonaesthetic series, loose alliteration, one addresser, graphological deviation, tabled fertility rites, lecture schema, foregrounded features, reporting clause, internal deviation, silent stress, conversational genre, reported clause, metrical reading, authorial style, relation maxim, deictic centre, conversational behaviour, quality maxim, lexical repetition, fictional prose, speech act analysis, style variation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Direct Speech, Lady Macbeth, William Shakespeare, Message Addressee, Miss Piffs, Lady Bracknell, James Joyce, Ted Hughes, Harold Pinter, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Philip Larkin, Free Indirect, John Fowles, Sir Bedivere, Michael Furey, The London Merchant, Standard English, Bleak House, Gilda Gray, Oscar Wilde, Lady Capulet, Lord Decimus, Little Nell, Parson Noah Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Patterns in Language: Stylistics for Students of Language and Literature (Interface) by Joanna Thornborrow on page 184, and Back Matter
- Exploring the Language of Drama: From Text to Context (Interface) by Jonathan Culpeper in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Contextualized Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk (DQR Studies in Literature 29) by Tony Bex on page 44, and page 143
- Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century: Selected Proceedings of the XXII International Congress of FILLM held at Assumption ... (Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature) by Suthira Duangsamosorn on page 255
- Exploring to French Text Analysis by Robert Crawshaw in Back Matter
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