Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose

Short, Michael H.; Leech, Geoffrey N.

ISBN 10: 1138134317 / ISBN 13: 9781138134317

Verlag: Routledge, 2015

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9781138134317

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1138134317
• ISBN-13: 9781138134317
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: New

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Winner of the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the most influential book published in the field of stylistics 1980.

In Style in Fiction, Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short demonstrate how stylistic analysis can be applied to novels and stories. Writing for both students of English language and English literature, they show the practical ways in which linguistic analysis and literary appreciation can be combined, and illuminated, through the study of literary style. Drawing mainly on major works of fiction of the last 150 years, their practical and insightful examination of style through texts and extracts leads to a deeper understanding of how prose writers achieve their effects through language.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Professor Geoffrey Leech is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at Lancaster University. He has written, co-authored or co-edited over 25 books, including A Glossary of English Grammar (2006) and Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999).' Professor Mick Short is Professor of English Language and Literature at Lancaster University. He is the author of, among others, Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose (1996) and (with Elena Semino) Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing (2004).