Investigating Dickens' style
Subtitle: a collocational analysis
By: Masahiro Hori.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Literary style.; English language -- 19th century -- Style.
Description: "Investigating Dickens' Style aims to provide insights into Dickens' language and style through the corpus-based study of collocation. A resource for Dickens' and literary stylistics researchers, the study makes use of the 4.6 million-word Dickens corpus to examine in detail Dickens' linguistic innovation, and offers a nuanced understanding of his use of language to achieve stylistic ends. At the centre of the study is a close analysis of the two narratives in Bleak House, read as a focal point for consideration of Dickens' stylistic development through his whole writing life. This book puts forward a new corpus-driven approach to the study of the language and style of literary texts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-228) and indexes.