Stylistics : prospect & retrospect /

Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect looks backward toward classic and foundational approaches and texts that helped to establish the field of stylistics. It also looks forward by examining recent innovations that seem likely to alter the ways in which style is studied in the years to come. The ess...

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Corporate Authors: Poetics and Linguistics Association, Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference
Other Authors: Hoover, David L., 1949-, Lattig, Sharon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781435613348
1435613341
9789401205313
9401205310
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Foregrounding, Estrangement, And Pattern; Foregrounding: Past, Present, Future; Modernist Poetics of Estrangement: Ezra Pound's Answer to Stéphane Mallarmé; Local Interpretation and the Syntax of Keats's 'To Autumn'; Part Ii. Formal Analysis And The Analysis Of Form; Story Elements as Sets; The Metrical Structure of Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes: A Corpus Study*; Embodiment and the Irreducible Sign: Towards a Theoretical Anthropo-Semiotic Grounding for Literary Textual Analysis.
  • Part Iii. Speech And Thought Presentationhistorical Transformations of Free Indirect Style; Using Speech and Thought Presentation to Validate Hypotheses Regarding the Nature of the Crime Novels of Andrea Camilleri; How to Make a Drama out of a Speech Act: The Speech Act of Apology in the Film A Fish Called Wanda; Bibliography; Index.