Essays in Modern Stylistics, first published in 1981, is a collection of essays in the application of modern linguistic theory to the study of literature. The essays reflect the development in stylistics away from programmic statements towards analysis of particular literary works and effects. This selection includes studies of the theory of stylistics, linguistic approaches to the poetry of John Keats, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake, modern metrical theory and prose style. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.
Acknowledgements; Part 1: Foreword; Part 2: General Theory;
1. The Role
of Linguistics in a Theory of Poetry Paul Kiparsky
2. Literary Competence
Jonathan Culler
3. Generative Grammar and Stylistic Analysis J. P. Thorne
4.
What is stylistics and why are they saying such terrible things about it?
Stanley E. Fish; Part 3: Approaches to Poetics;
5. Keatss To Autumn:
Poetry as Process and Pattern Donald C. Freeman
6. Wallace Stevens: Form and
Meaning in Four Poems Samuel Jay Keyser
7. Syntactic Deviation and Cohesion
Irene R. Fairley
8. Constraints on Syntactic Rules and the Style of Shelleys
Adonais: An Exercise in Stylistic Criticism Timothy R. Austin
9. The
Self-Reflexive Artefact: The Function of Mimesis in an Approach to a Theory
of Value for Literature E. L. Epstein; Part 4: Approaches to Metrics;
10. The
Iambic Pentameter Morris Halle and Samuel Jay Keyser
11. Stress, Syntax and
Meter Paul Kiparsky
12. Towards a Formal Poetics: Metrical Patterning in The
Windhover Charles T. Scott
13. A Generative Metrical Analysis of Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight Justine T. Stillings; Part 4: Approaches to Prose
Style;
14. Linguistic Function and Literary Style: An Inquiry into the
Language of William Goldings The Inheritors M. A. K. Halliday
15. Speech,
Literature and the Space between Mary Louise Pratt; Suggestions for Further
Reading
Donald Freeman
