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Stylistics of poetry : a practical approach / D. Gnanasekaran

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chennai, India : Notion Press, c2018Description: 123 pages ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781642494754
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 1101 .G53 2018
Contents:
1.Language and stylistics -- 2.At the graphological and phonological level -- 3.At the lexical level -- 4.At the syntactic level -- 5.At the semantic discourse level -- 6.A synthetic analysis -- 7.Conclusion -- 8.Exercises.
Summary: Stylistics is a branch of Applied Linguistics and deals with the various levels of language – graphological/phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic/discourse. In this book, each level is lucidly explained with relevant theoretical concepts, and they are practically applied to two poems as model-exercises. With the evidences explicitly available and insinuations implicitly conveyed in the text, each poem is insightfully examined through a linguistics lens to explore the stylistic nuances embedded in it. It can be exciting and interesting to anyone interested in the English language and poetic style in addition to students of literature.
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1.Language and stylistics -- 2.At the graphological and phonological level -- 3.At the lexical level -- 4.At the syntactic level -- 5.At the semantic discourse level -- 6.A synthetic analysis -- 7.Conclusion -- 8.Exercises.

Stylistics is a branch of Applied Linguistics and deals with the various levels of language – graphological/phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic/discourse. In this book, each level is lucidly explained with relevant theoretical concepts, and they are practically applied to two poems as model-exercises. With the evidences explicitly available and insinuations implicitly conveyed in the text, each poem is insightfully examined through a linguistics lens to explore the stylistic nuances embedded in it. It can be exciting and interesting to anyone interested in the English language and poetic style in addition to students of literature.

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