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Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose

Mick Short author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:19th Jul '96

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Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out stylistic analysis of poetry, drama and prose fiction in turn. He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature, adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages.



 "...;an excellent instance of successful assimilation of linguistic method into literary studies via the stylistics interface."  STYLE  "...;represents a very solid distillation of many years of teaching, writing and reflection on the established topics of literary stylistics."  Journal of Sociolinguistics  "The latest book by Mick Short shows that stylistics is alive and kicking."  Greta


'Clearly, this is an impressive and valuable book.'

Language and Literature, 1998.

ISBN: 9780582291300

Dimensions: 142mm x 214mm x 24mm

Weight: 440g

416 pages