Geoffrey Leech
Mick Short, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 424 pp

ISBN-10:	0582784093
ISBN-13:	9780582784093

Our Price: £18.99
Status: Instock
Published: 29 Mar 2007

Winner of the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the most influential book published in the field of stylistics 1980.

In Style in Fiction, Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short demonstrate how stylistic analysis can be applied to novels and stories. Writing for both students of English language and English literature, they show the practical ways in which linguistic analysis and literary appreciation can be combined, and illuminated, through the study of literary style. Drawing mainly on major works of fiction of the last 150 years, their practical and insightful examination of style through texts and extracts leads to a deeper understanding of how prose writers achieve their effects through language.

Foreword 
Introduction 
Part I: Approaches and methods 
1. Style and Choice
2. Style, Text and Frequency
3. A Method of Analysis and some Examples
4. Levels of Style Part II: Aspects of style 
5. Language and the Fictional World
6. Mind Style
7. The Rhetoric of Text
8. Discourse and Discourse Situation
9. Conversation in the Novel
10. Speech and Thought Presentation Passages and topics for further study
Further reading
Bibliography
Index of works discussed
General index

• Provides students with a systematic introduction to and explanation of the main features of 'style'
• Contains a series of close analyses of extracts from a wide range of novels and stories for great depth of coverage
• Includes an abundance of new material, addressing the massive changes in the discipline that have taken place over the last 25 years 
• The ‘Further Reading’ section and the bibliographical references have been thoroughly updated.