Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students

Book Details

• Author: Paul Simpson

• Publisher: Routledge

• Language: English

• Edition: 2nd Edition

• ISBN: 9780415644976

• Pages: 332

• Cover: Paperback

• Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches

• Format: Illustrated

About The Book

Stylistics, Second Edition by Paul Simpson offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the field of stylistics, making it an essential resource for students of English language, linguistics, and literature. This innovative textbook, assuming no prior knowledge, presents the core theories, concepts, and methods needed to explore language in literature. It is designed to be flexible and user-friendly, with a two-dimensional structure that helps students build their knowledge gradually. The four key sections—introduction, development, exploration, and extension—allow students to engage with topics at their own pace, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings included throughout.

Richly illustrated with examples from both classic and contemporary literary texts, Stylistics explores a wide array of topics from metre to metaphor, dialogue to discourse. Each chapter includes practical work suggestions and a thought-provoking original reading by a world-renowned scholar. The second edition builds upon the strengths of the first, adding fresh exercises and worked examples while capturing the latest developments in the field, such as corpus, cognitive, and multimodal approaches to studying style.

The revised edition also features an updated website with helpful resources, including useful links, worked examples, and a new section on style and humour. With its clear writing and engaging approach, Stylistics is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of stylistics and language analysis in literature.