Stylistics

An introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. This volume provides students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis. It examines such areas as: the terminology of literary form; how literary style has evolved since the 16th century; the role of stylistics from classical rhetoric to poststructuralism; the relationship between literary style and its historical context; style and gender; and examples of poems, plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day.