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.

Introduction. Part I: A Short History of Stylistics 1. Rhetoric 2. Stylistics and Modern Criticism 3. Textualism I: Poetry 4. Textualism II: The Novel 5. Contextualist Stylistics Part II: Stylistics and Literary History 6. Renaissance and Augustan Poetry 7. Literary Style and Literary History 8. Shakespeare's Drama: Two Stylistic Registers 9. The Eighteenth and Nineteentn Century Novel 10. Romanticism 11. Modernism and Naturalization Part III: 12. Gender and Genre 13. Evaluative Stylistics