Leech, Geoffrey N.

Language in literature : style and foregrounding / Geoffrey Leech. - 1st ed. - Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2008. - xii, 222 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-217) and index.

Linguistics and the figures of rhetoric -- 'This bread I break' : language and interpretation -- Literary criticism and linguistic description -- Stylistics -- Music in metre : 'sprung rhythm' in Victorian poetry -- Pragmatics, discourse analysis, stylistics and the celebrated letter' -- Stylistics and functionalism -- Pragmatic principles in Shaw's You never can tell -- Style in interior monologue : Virginia Woolf's 'The mark on the wall' -- Work in progress in corpus stylistics : a method of finding 'deviant' or 'key' features of texts, and its application to 'The mark on the wall' -- Closing statement : text, interpretation, history and education.

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English language--Style.
English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
English literature--Explication.
Literary style.

PE 1421 / .L44 2008

808/.042

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