Teaching Stylistics

by Lesley Jeffries (Editor), D. McIntyre (Editor)

Overview

Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts, has a key role to play in literary criticism. This book covers the theory and practice of teaching stylistics, focusing on the value of objectivity, rigour and replicability in text analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230235885
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/13/2011
Series:	Teaching the New English
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

CAROL BELLARD-THOMSON, Researcher, University of Huddersfield, UK DEREK BOUSFIELD, Head of the Division of Linguistics, English Language, Literature and Culture, University of Central Lancashire, UK BEATRIX BUSSE, Professor of English (historical) Linguistics, Germany ANNA CHESNOKOVA, Associate Professor in the Translation Department, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine MARINA LAMBROU, Principal Lecturer in English Language and Communication, Kingston University, UK NINA NORGAARD, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Institute of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark MICK SHORT, Professor of English Language and Literature, Lancaster University MICHAEL TOOLAN, Professor of English Language and Head of the Department of English, University of Birmingham, UK WILLIE VAN PEER, Professor of Literary Studies and Intercultural Hermeneutics, University of Munich, Germany VALENTINA YAKUBA, Associate Professor in the Translation Department, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine DAVID WEST, Lecturer in English, Ruhr Bochum University, Germany SONIA ZYNGIER, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the contributors Introduction; D.McIntyre & L.Jeffries PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES The place of stylistics in the English curriculum; D.McIntyre A teaching career in three chapters and three examples: why I teach stylistics, how I teach it, and why I enjoy it; M.Short Joining the stylistics discourse community: corpus evidence for the learning processes involved in acquiring skills for stylistic analysis; C.Bellard-Thomson Processes of interpretation: using meta-analysis to inform pedagogic practice; M.Short, D.McIntyre, L.Jeffries & D.Bousfield Using stylistics to teach literature to non-native speakers; A.Chesnokova & V. Yakuba Learning without teaching: literature and the REDES project; W.van Peer, S.Zyngier & A.Chesnokova PART II: PEDAGOGY IN PRACTICE Teaching the stylistics of poetry; L.Jeffries Teaching the stylistics of drama; B.Busse Teaching the stylistics of prose fiction; M.Toolan Teaching non-literary stylistics; M.Lambrou Teaching multimodal stylistics; N.Nørgaard Teaching cognitive stylistics; D.West Appendix 1: Chronology of key events in stylistics 343 Appendix 2: List of key works in stylistics 347 Appendix 3: An annotated bibliography of further reading and resources in stylistics 350 Appendix 4: List of key stylisticians and their contributions to the discipline 361 Appendix 5: A survey of current provision of postgraduate courses in stylistics in the UK and US 366 Index