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Title Stylistics : prospect & retrospect / edited by David L. Hoover and Sharon Lattig
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 212 pages) : illustrations
Series PALA papers ; 3
PALA (Series) ; 3.
Contents Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Foregrounding, Estrangement, And Pattern; Foregrounding: Past, Present, Future; Modernist Poetics of Estrangement: Ezra Pound's Answer to Stéphane Mallarmé; Local Interpretation and the Syntax of Keats's 'To Autumn'; Part Ii. Formal Analysis And The Analysis Of Form; Story Elements as Sets; The Metrical Structure of Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes: A Corpus Study*; Embodiment and the Irreducible Sign: Towards a Theoretical Anthropo-Semiotic Grounding for Literary Textual Analysis
Part Iii. Speech And Thought Presentationhistorical Transformations of Free Indirect Style; Using Speech and Thought Presentation to Validate Hypotheses Regarding the Nature of the Crime Novels of Andrea Camilleri; How to Make a Drama out of a Speech Act: The Speech Act of Apology in the Film A Fish Called Wanda; Bibliography; Index
Summary Stylistics: Prospect & Retrospect looks backward toward classic and foundational approaches and texts that helped to establish the field of stylistics. It also looks forward by examining recent innovations that seem likely to alter the ways in which style is studied in the years to come. The essays presented here, written by an array of experts from nine countries on four continents, employ a wide range of approaches to works that range from romantic poetry to contemporary fiction and from traditional folktales and nursery rhymes to contemporary film. The variety of authors, approaches, and wo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Discourse analysis, Literary
Literary style
literary criticism.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Discourse analysis, Literary
Literary style
Stilistik
Stilistik.
Form Electronic book
Author Hoover, David L., 1949-
Lattig, Sharon
Poetics and Linguistics Association.
Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference (24th : 2004 : New York, N.Y.)
ISBN 9781435613348
1435613341
9789401205313
9401205310
Other Titles Prospect & retrospect
Prospect and retrospect