Stylistics

Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis.

This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines:

the terminology of literary form

how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century

the role of stylistics in twentieth century criticism

the discipline of stylistics from classical rhetoric to post-structuralism

the relationship between literary style and its historical context

style and gender

* examples of poems, plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day.