Style : text analysis and linguistic criticism

Author(s)

• Freeborn, Dennis

Bibliographic Information

Style : text analysis and linguistic criticism

Dennis Freeborn

（Studies in English language）

Macmillan, 1996

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 283

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

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• NCID: BA28057926
• ISBN:
  • 0333468767
  • 0333468775
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 294 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 428
  • NDC8 : 836
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Criticism
  • LCSH : Style, Literary
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Style
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00704732