Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts,has a key role to play in literary criticism. This book covers the theory andpractice of teaching stylistics, focusing on the value of objectivity, rigourand replicability in text analysis. LESLEY JEFFRIES is Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She was recently the Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and is co-editor (with Dan McIntyre) of the Perspectives on the English Language (PEL) series for Palgrave. She is the author of a number of books, including Critical Stylistics (in the PEL series), Textual Construction of the Female Body (Palgrave 2007) and Opposition in Discourse (Continuum 2010). She and Dan McIntyre have recently published Stylistics (C.U.P.)which is an overview of the state of the art of this field. . . DAN MCINTYRE is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where he teaches courses in stylistics, corpus linguistics and the history of the English language. Among his publications are Point of View in Plays (John Benjamins, 2006), the co-edited Stylistics and Social Cognition (Rodopi, 2007), History of English (Routledge, 2009), the co-authored Stylistics (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and the co-edited Language and Style (Palgrave, 2010). He isseries editor for Continuum's Advances in Stylistics series, co-series editorfor Perspectives on the English Language (Palgrave) and Reviews Editor for the journal Language and Literature. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on the contributors - Introduction;' D.McIntyre '& 'L.Jeffries' - PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES - The place of stylistics in the English curriculum; 'D.McIntyre' - A teaching career in three chapters and three examples: why I teach stylistics, how I teach it, and why I enjoy it; 'M.Short' - Joining the stylistics discourse community: corpus evidence for the learning processes involved in acquiring skills for stylistic analysis; 'C.Bellard-Thomson - 'Processes of interpretation: using meta-analysis to informpedagogic practice;' M.Short, D.McIntyre, L.Jeffries '& 'D.Bousfield ' - Using stylistics to teach literature to non-native speakers; 'A.Chesnokova' & 'V. Yakuba' - Learning without teaching: literature and the REDES project;' W.van Peer, S.Zyngier' & 'A.Chesnokova' - PART II: PEDAGOGY IN PRACTICE - Teaching the stylistics of poetry; 'L.Jeffries' - Teaching the stylistics of drama; 'B.Busse' - Teaching the stylistics of prose fiction; 'M.Toolan ' - Teaching non-literary stylistics; 'M.Lambrou' - Teaching multimodal stylistics; 'N.Nørgaard'- Teaching cognitive stylistics; 'D.West' - Appendix 1: Chronology of key events in stylistics 343 - Appendix 2: List of key works in stylistics 347 - Appendix 3: An annotated bibliography of further reading and resources in stylistics 350 - Appendix 4: List of key stylisticians and their contributions to the discipline 361 - Appendix 5: A survey of current provision of postgraduate courses in stylistics in the UK and US 366 – Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23587-8
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 17/06/2011
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