Literary Stylistics
Stylistics
This is a comprehensive introduction to literary stylistics offering an accessible overview of stylistic, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume.
Pragmatic Stylistics
This volume is a study of the language of literary texts. It looks at the usefulness of pragmatic theories to the interpretation of literary texts and surveys methods of analysing narrative, with special attention given to narratorial authority and character focalisation.
A Linguistic History Of English Poetry
What is poetry? How does it work, and how do we make sense of it? Bringing together the emphases and techniques of modern linguistics and literary criticism, the author applies these to a range of poems from Shakespeare to the present day.
Understanding Children's Literature
Edited by Peter Hunt, a leading figure in the field, this book introduces the study of children's literature, addressing theoretical questions as well as the most relevant critical approaches to the discipline.
Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale
Much research has been done on the social messages conveyed to children reading or listening to fairy tales. In this study, the emphasis shifts from content to linguistic expression.
The Language of Evaluation
This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework, an approach developed over the past decade for analyzing the language of evaluation, the linguistic realization of attitudes, judgments and emotion and the ways in which these evaluations are negotiated interpers