Stylistics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415097697)

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

Author: Richard Bradford
ISBN-10: 041509769X
ISBN-13: 9780415097697
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/27/1997
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.99w x 0.78d