Ebook: Stylistics

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.;BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I A SHORT HISTORY OF STYLISTICS -- 1 RHETORIC -- 2 STYLISTICS AND MODERN CRITICISM -- 3 TEXTUALISM I: POETRY -- PROSODY AND POETIC FORM -- METRE -- RHYME AND THE STANZA -- THE SONNET -- THE ODE -- BLANK VERSE -- FREE VERSE -- METAPHOR -- SYNTAX, DICTION AND VOCABULARY -- CRITICAL METHODS -- 4 TEXTUALISM II: THE NOVEL -- MODELS OF NARRATIVE -- GENETTE'S THEORIES OF DIEGESIS AND FOCALIZATION -- SPEECH, DIALOGUE AND NARRATIVE.