Contemporary Stylistics Language, Cognition, Interpretation |
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| Author:
| Gibbons, Alison
Whiteley, Sara |
| Series title: | Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language Advanced Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7486-8277-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2018 |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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Through close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, Contemporary Stylistics it introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts. Including innovative activities for students and with case studies of work by writers like Dylan Thomas, EL James and Kazuo Ishiguro, this is a detailed...
More DescriptionThrough close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, Contemporary Stylistics it introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts. Including innovative activities for students and with case studies of work by writers like Dylan Thomas, EL James and Kazuo Ishiguro, this is a detailed analysis of contemporary stylistics that offers both historical contextualization of the discipline and points towards its possible future direction.