Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. Providing readers with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis, this comprehensive and accessible guidebook 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.
The function of language that will be focused on in this book is how it is used in the creation of literary texts. That said, many students find writing about the language of literature difficult. It is one thing to comment on what was written about, quite another to write about how it was written. This book will help you to analyse literary texts by looking at the ways in which language has been used in their formation.
Gender in Translation is the first full-length study of the feminist issues surrounding translation studies. In this unprecedented and thought-provoking work, Sherry Simon argues that feminist theory challenges the traditional view of authority in translation, allowing translators to be literary activists and to create new lines of transmission.
* definitions of key terms such as 'literature' and 'text'
* major genres, such as fiction, poetry, drama and film
* periods and classifications of literature
* theoretical approaches to texts
* the use of secondary resources
* guidelines for writing research essays.
Klarer has fully updated the highly successful first edition to provide greater guidance for online research and to reflect recent changes to MLA guidelines for referencing and quoting sources. He concludes with suggestions for further reading and an extensive glossary of important literary and cinematic terms.In this volume, Mario Klarer provides the essential beginner's guide to English literary studies. Offering a concise, easy-to-understand discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at:
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor.
