Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern criticalideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basicgrasp o... » 

Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern criticalideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basicgrasp of stylistics and literary analysis.This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines the terminology of literary form how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century the role of stylistics in twentieth century criticism the discipline of stylistics from classical rhetoric to poststructuralism the relationship between literary style and its historical context style and gender examples of poems plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day. «