Stylistics (New Critical Idiom)

By Richard Bradford

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00804MOH0
• ISBN13: 9780415097697
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"