Language in literature
Subtitle: style and foregrounding
By: Geoffrey Leech.
Publisher: Pearson Longman; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780582051096
Subjects: English language -- Style; English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English literature -- Explication; Style, Literary
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Linguistics and the figures of rhetoric; title: "This bread I break": language and interpretation; title: Literary criticism and linguistic description; title: Stylistics; title: Music and metre: 'sprung rhythm' in Victorian poetry; title: Pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics and "the celebrated letter"; title: Stylistics and functionalism; title: Pragmatic principles in Shaw's You never can tell; title: Style in interior monologue: Virginia Woolf's "The mark on the wall'; title: Work in progress in corpus stylistics: a method of finding 'deviant' or 'key' features of texts, and its application to "The mark on the wall"; title: Closing statement: text, interpretation, history and education.