Political stylistics
Subtitle: popular language as literary artifact
By: Pascale Gaitet.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: French fiction -- History and criticism.; Working class in literature.; Working class writings, French -- History and criticism.; Power (Social sciences) in literature.; Politics and literature -- France.; Popular culture in literature.; French language -- Style.; Narration (Rhetoric); Style, Literary.
Description: Draws together ideas about society and language from a range of theorists to establish a political stylistics: a way of studying the formal properties of texts based on the principle that all linguistic production exists in a power framework mirroring that of social relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Princeton University, 1986) presented under the title: Popular language in the literary text: Zola, Celine, Queneau.