An Introduction to the Language of Literature (The Language of Literature, 5)

This book presents an introduction to stylistics for students of literature. It does not presuppose linguistic knowledge, but it approaches literature in a linguistic way. In the first half it looks at the make-up of a sentence in English and how sentence elements are exploited by literary authors. In the second half it looks at the way in which a text is unified by elements beyond the sentence. The conclusion exemplifies the theory explained in the previous chapters. Front Matter....Pages i-vi Introduction....Pages 1-10 Sentence Structure....Pages 11-21 Group Structure: The Noun Group....Pages 22-35 Group Structure: The Other Groups....Pages 36-50 Vocabulary....Pages 51-68 Sounds and Patterns....Pages 69-82 Pragmatics and Literary Texts....Pages 83-103 Cohesion....Pages 104-121 Conclusion....Pages 122-144 Back Matter....Pages 145-152 The aim of this book is to explain style in terms which do not presuppose an extensive acquaintance on the part of the reader with linguistic terminology. Its orientation is not basically theoretical. It attempts to provide help in a pragmatic way. N.f. Blake. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [146]-147) And Index.