Bradford R. Stylistics

Taylor & Francis Group, 1997. — xiii, 208 p. — (The New Critical Idiom). — ISBN: 0-415-09768-1, 0-415-09769-X, 0-203-99265-2.Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis.
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.
examples of poems, plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day.