This new coursebook offers teachers and students a thorough and lively guide to stylistic and critical analysis of a range of texts, both literary and non-literary, classic and contemporary. Full of examples and exercises, this is an invaluable book for all students of English language and its usage.
Table of contents:
Symbols - Acknowledgements - Introduction - What is Style? - Words - New Words for Old - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 1 - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 2 - Traditional Rhetoric - Rhetorical Style - Writing without Style - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 3 - Words and Grammar in Verse - Prose Translations - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 1 - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 2 - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 3 - Poetic Prose - Verse Translation - First Person Narrative - The Spoken Voice - Original and Simplified Texts - Parody and Pastiche - Styles of News Reporting
Table of contents:
Symbols - Acknowledgements - Introduction - What is Style? - Words - New Words for Old - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 1 - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 2 - Traditional Rhetoric - Rhetorical Style - Writing without Style - Words and Grammar in Prose Texts 3 - Words and Grammar in Verse - Prose Translations - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 1 - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 2 - Rhyme, Rhythm and Sound 3 - Poetic Prose - Verse Translation - First Person Narrative - The Spoken Voice - Original and Simplified Texts - Parody and Pastiche - Styles of News Reporting