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  • © 1990

An Introduction to the Language of Literature

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Part of the book series: The Language of Literature (LOL)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Introduction

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 1-10
  3. Sentence Structure

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 11-21
  4. Group Structure: The Noun Group

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 22-35
  5. Group Structure: The Other Groups

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 36-50
  6. Vocabulary

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 51-68
  7. Sounds and Patterns

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 69-82
  8. Pragmatics and Literary Texts

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 83-103
  9. Cohesion

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 104-121
  10. Conclusion

    • N. F. Blake
    Pages 122-144
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 145-152

About this book

This book presents an introduction to stylistics for students of literature. It does not presuppose linguistic knowledge, but it approaches literature in a linguistic way. In the first half it looks at the make-up of a sentence in English and how sentence elements are exploited by literary authors. In the second half it looks at the way in which a text is unified by elements beyond the sentence. The conclusion exemplifies the theory explained in the previous chapters.

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