Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook - Hardcover

Hope, Jonathan; Wright, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138170232 ISBN 13: 9781138170230

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Using a wide range of twentieth-century literary prose Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope provide an `interactive' introduction to the techniques of stylistic analysis. Divided up into five sections; the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the clause, text structure and vocabulary, the book also provides an introduction to the basics of descriptive grammar for beginning students.
* Presumes no prior linguistic knowledge
* Provides a comprehensive glossary of terms
* Adaptable: designed to be used in a variety of classroom contexts
* Introduces students to an enormous range of 20th century literature from James Joyce to Roddy Doyle
A practical coursebook rather than a survey account of stylistics as a discipline, the book provides over forty opportunities for hands-on stylistic analysis. For each linguistic feature under discussion the reader is offered a definition, a text for analysis, exercises and tasks, in addition to a suggested solution.
Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook is genuinely `student friendly' and will be an invaluable tool for all beginning undergraduates and A-level students of language and literature.

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Jonathan Hope, Laura Wright

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138170232
• ISBN 13: 9781138170230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256