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Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages.
| ISBN | 0582291305 | | Pages | 416 | | ISBN13 | 9780582291300
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Pearson Education Limited | | Weight (grammes) | 440 | | Imprint | Longman | | Published in | Harlow | | Format | Paperback | | Series editor | Leech, Geoffrey, Short, Mick | | Publication date | 19 Jul 1996 | | Series title | Learning About Language | | Non-book description | book | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | PE1421.S5 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 808 | | Spine width (mm) | 27 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | Tertiary education |
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| | | Preface: how to use this book | | | | | | Author's acknowledgements | | | | | | Publisher's acknowledgements | | | | 1 | | Who is stylistics? | | 1 | | 2 | | More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism | | 36 | | 3 | | Style variation in texts | | 80 | | 4 | | Sound, meaning and effect | | 106 | | 5 | | Rhythm and metre in the reading of poetry | | 125 | | 6 | | Drama: the conversational genre | | 168 | | 7 | | The meaning of speech acts, turn-taking and politeness | | 195 | | 8 | | Assumptions, presuppositions and the inferring of meaning | | 222 | | 9 | | Fictional prose and point of view | | 255 | | 10 | | Speech and thought presentation | | 288 | | 11 | | Prose style | | 326 | | 12 | | Bringing it all together | | 354 | | | | Appendix: a list of English phonemes | | 375 | | | | References | | 377 | | | | Index | | 386 |
"...;an excellent instance of successful assimilation of linguistic method into literary studies via the stylistics interface." STYLE "...;represents a very solid distillation of many years of teaching, writing and reflection on the established topics of literary stylistics." Journal of Sociolinguistics "The latest book by Mick Short shows that stylistics is alive and kicking." Greta 'Clearly, this is an impressive and valuable book.' Language and Literature, 1998.  Be the first to write a customer review
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