Language and Style

by Dan McIntyre, Beatrix Busse

Inspired by Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose , Mick Short's classic introduction to stylistics, Language and Style represents the state-of-the-art in literary stylistics and encompasses the full breadth of current research in the discipline. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters cover a variety of methodological and analytical approaches, from traditional qualitative analysis to more recent developments in cognitive and corpus stylistics.

Addressing the three, key literary genres of poetry, drama and narrative, Language and Style is divided into carefully balanced sections. Based on original research, each chapter demonstrates a particular analytic technique and explains how this might be applied to a text from one of the literary genres. Framed by helpful introductory material covering the foundational principles of stylistics, the chapters act as practical exemplars of how to carry out stylistic analysis.

Comprehensive and engaging, this invaluable resource is essential reading for anyone interested in stylistics.

464 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 2010

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mix of introductory and advanced essays in the field of stylistics. Essays take a number of approaches, from data visualisation to text comparisons. Great value. Plus this things is so dense that I dropped the book on my ten inch dong and the swelling made it look like eleven inches.

[Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tribute to Mick Short, the Lord of Stylistics, this compilation of stylistics essays is more than words can describe. Through the verge of cognitive stylistics to corpus stylistics as well as those in-between realm, people who appreciate on how language can contribute to new discovery of phenomena should have been witnessed. Comprehensive, sophisticated, priceless, just to name a few of great quality this book could have been honored. For those beginners, this book should be kept in the faraway area, but will definitely fruitful when of competence enough.