Style in Fiction

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This new series of linguistics titlcs in Longman Paperbacks will bc of particular interest and valuc to students and the non-specialist. It ineludes works which first appeared in Longman Linguistics Library and the English Language Series as well as new titlcs being published simultaneously in cased and paperback editions.
This book is comparable, in level and scope, with Geoffrey Lccch's earlier book in the English Language Series, A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, and may indeed be regarded as.a companion volume to it, taking not poetic style but prose style as its subject matter.
The authors show the student of English (whether his primary interest is in language or literature) how the two poles of English studies — linguistic analysis and literary appreciation — can be interrclatcd, and illuminated, through the linguistic study of literary style. The book is, therefore, an introduction to prose stylistics — taking 'stylistics' as the study of language in the service of... Tovább

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This new series of linguistics titlcs in Longman Paperbacks will bc of particular interest and valuc to students and the non-specialist. It ineludes works which first appeared in Longman Linguistics Library and the English Language Series as well as new titlcs being published simultaneously in cased and paperback editions.
This book is comparable, in level and scope, with Geoffrey Lccch's earlier book in the English Language Series, A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, and may indeed be regarded as.a companion volume to it, taking not poetic style but prose style as its subject matter.
The authors show the student of English (whether his primary interest is in language or literature) how the two poles of English studies — linguistic analysis and literary appreciation — can be interrclatcd, and illuminated, through the linguistic study of literary style. The book is, therefore, an introduction to prose stylistics — taking 'stylistics' as the study of language in the service of literary ends. The emphasis is 011 prose fiction of the last 150 years, and on the practical analysis of prose texts and extracts as a means to a dcepcr understanding of techtiiques of literary expression.
Because the various features of style arc introduced, exemplified and analysed in careful detail, Style in Fiction will be particularly useful as a student coursebook, and to increase its practical valuc it concludes Vissza