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powerpoint presentation stylistics lecture break-up history and development of stylistics stylistics – 3 major claims literary and non-literary stylistics register theory how to analyze various texts stylistically principles of stylistics foregrounding parallelism deviation the “?” attitude dare to challenge, to go against the current! critical thinking what would you do when you come across a person who you disagree with? will you listen to her/him at least? would you impose your point of view?, etc stop n think n challenge!!! old and cherished beliefs norms social institutions, etc critical studies critical theory, in fact, long pre-dates the literary criticism of individual works. aristotle's poetics tragedy reader-centred approach to literature (how drama affected the audience) sir philip sidney’s 'apology for poetry' (1580) to teach by delighting (didacticism) distinguishing literature from other forms of writing johnson's lives of the poets and prefaces to shakespeare can be seen both as another major step …

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‘ track. it tends to centre upon the close analysis of the work of particular writers, and gives us our tradition of 'close reading'. the other track lies through sidney, wordsworth, coleridge, george eliot, and henry james. this track is very much 'ideas-led' rather than 'text-led': it tends to tackle big general issues concerned with literature – how are literary works structured? how do they affect readers or audiences? what is the nature of literary language? how does literature relate to the contemporary and to matters of politics and gender?, etc. these 'track two' preoccupations are very similar to the concerns of the critical theorists who became prominent from the 1960s onwards. key points of critical studies politics is pervasive, language is constitutive, truth is provisional, meaning is contingent, human nature is a myth what is stylistics? stylistics is the science which explores how readers interact with the language of …

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e in language. perhaps the most influential article is: (closing statement: linguistics and poetics) by roman jacobson who is an important figure who contributed in the development of stylistics. in the twentieth century stylistics can be seen as a logical extension of moves within literary criticism to concentrate on studying texts rather than authors. while in nineteenth century, literary criticism concentrated on the author, and the text-based criticism of the two british critics richards and william empson who rejected that approach and replaced it with the other approach called practical criticism. practical criticism concentrates on the literary texts themselves, and how readers were affected by those texts. in addition practical criticism is matched by a similar critical movement in the usa called new criticism. new criticism is based on the description of literary works as independent aesthetic objects. practical criticism and new criticism two important features 1-an emphasis on the …

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nguage & literature and linguistics & literary criticism stylistics – 3 major claims stylistics is use of linguistics (the study of language) to approach literary texts the discussion of texts according to objective criteria to emphasize the aesthetic properties of the text "the goal of stylistics is not simply to describe the formal features of texts for their own sake, but in order to show their functional significance for the interpretation of the text…“katie wales a dictionary of stylistics, 2nd ed. (pearson, 2001) subset of language as defined by purpose and setting term first used by reid (1956), but popularised by halliday (et al.) (1964) to distinguish variety due to user (accent, dialect) variety due to use halliday (1964) defines register in terms of field, tenor and mode. register register theory language varies according to the situation in which it is used, and these varieties of language can be referred …

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equal as in the case of a boss/ employee to equal as with friends); affective involvement (ranging from high as with friends/family members to low as with business clients); contact (ranging from frequent to occasional). mode of discourse: the role language is playing in the interaction language can be: written; spoken; written to be spoken (e.g. a political speech). language can be: spontaneous (e.g. conversation); planned (e.g. a composition or article). the level of interactiveness of language varies. there can be the possibility of having: immediate feedback (e.g. conversation); rapid feedback (e.g. emails); delayed feedback (e.g. letters). language can: accompany an action (e.g. saying those while pointing to something); describe an experience (e.g. a news report). foregrounding literariness poetic language vs everyday language. the language of literature is distinguishable form the language of everyday use due to its ‘literariness’. formalists position themselves in an aristotelian tradition in which “poetic language …

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powerpoint presentation stylistics lecture break-up history and development of stylistics stylistics – 3 major claims literary and non-literary stylistics register theory how to analyze various texts stylistically principles of stylistics foregrounding parallelism deviation the “?” attitude dare to challenge, to go against the current! critical thinking what would you do when you come across a person who you disagree with? will you listen to her/him at least? would you impose your point of view?, etc stop n think n challenge!!! old and cherished beliefs norms social institutions, etc critical studies critical theory, in fact, long pre-dates the literary criticism of individual works. aristotle's poetics tragedy reader-centred approach to literature (how drama affected the audience) sir phi...

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