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Author Bradford, Richard, 1957-

Title Stylistics / Richard Bradford
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description xii, 215 pages ; 21 cm
Series New critical idiom
New critical idiom.
Contents Pt. I. A Short History of Stylistics. 1. Rhetoric. 2. Stylistics and modern criticism. 3. Textualism I: poetry. 4. Textualism II: the novel. 5. Contextualist stylistics -- Pt. II. Stylistics and Literary History. 6. Renaissance and Augustan poetry. 7. Literary style and literary history. 8. Shakespeare's drama: two stylistic registers. 9. The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. 10. Romanticism. 11. Modernism and naturalization -- Pt. III. Gender and Evaluation. 12. Gender and genre. 13. Evaluative stylistics
Summary In Stylistics Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. The book includes examples of poems, plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates explains the terminology of literary form, considers the role of stylistics in twentieth-century criticism, and shows, with worked examples, how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century. This book falls into three sections: Part I follows the discipline of stylistics from classical rhetoric to poststructuralism; Part II looks at the relationship between literary style and its historical context; Part III considers the relationships between style and gender, and between style and evaluative judgement
Notes Bibliography: p[206]-211. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-211) and index
Subject Language and languages -- Style.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Literary style.
LC no. 96027990
ISBN 0415097681
041509769X (paperback)