The New Critical Idiom : Stylistics

by RichardBradford (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $23.20

  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.