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    STYLISTICS

    A DICHOTOMY

    Linguistics Literature

    A science Talks about values, feelings and


    emotions
    Linguists Literary Critics
    Consider language a code which follows a Talk about meanings
    system
    GRAPHOLOGICAL DEVIATION
    Me up at does
    out of the floor
    quietly Stare
    a poisoned mouse

    still who alive


    is asking What
    have i done that
    You wouldnt have
    (E.E Cummings)
    DEFINITION

    Style is the man himself


    Buffon, A French writer
    A mans style is his minds voice
    Emerson
    In the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Crystal observes:

    In practice, most stylistic analysis has attempted to deal


    with the complex and valued language within literature,
    i.e. Literary Stylistics
    PROS AND CONS OF STYLISTICS

    Pros:
    Using Stylistics makes it easier for the reader to
    interpret the piece of work. They also provide a more
    clear meaning for the work.
    Cons
    Sometimes, a piece of Literature can be over-analyzed
    and the original meaning of the work can be lost
    A BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
    Stylistics is a modern version of the ancient
    discipline known as Rhetoric which means how
    to manage a speech or a piece of writing to make
    impression.
    Throughout 19th century Rhetoric was gradually
    absorbed in linguistics.
    At this stage linguistics was usually known as
    Philology which involved studying evolution of
    languages, their connections and speculating
    about origin of language itself.
    In 20th century, the stress was upon how
    language is structured, and how meanings are
    established.
    Discourse Analysis was next phase. It enabled
    linguists to comment and analyze the complete
    pieces of writing.
    The next phase was called Neo Stylistics, which
    concentrated upon understanding the structures
    of literary texts and drawing multiple meanings,
    here it is linked to Literary Criticism.
    QUESTIONS STYLISTICS ASKS
    1: What is authors overall attitude of the piece?
    2: What kind of diction does the author use?

    3: What is the sentence structure?

    4: How does the author treat the subject matter?

    5: What kind of figurative language and imagery


    does the author use?
    6: What is the point of view?

    7: What is the attitude of the author?

    8: What kind of tone is used?


    THE AMBITIONS OF STYLISTICS
    Stylisticians try to provide hard data to support
    existing intuition about a literary work.
    Example: Hemmingway has a plain style which is
    distinctive.
    Stylisticians might ask__ What do we mean exactly by plain?
    Hemmingway avoids descriptive words like adverbs and
    adjectives.
    Another writer says,
    Smith ran purposefully through the heavy rain.
    Hemmingway omits the adverb purposefully and adjective
    heavy. His sentence will be- Smith ran through the rain
    This is called Hard Data to support existing intuitions.
    CONTINUES
    Stylisticians suggest new interpretation of literary
    works based on linguistic evidence from which the
    reader remains usually unaware.
    Example:
    My womb, my womb, my womb, undoes me.
    Falstaff (Shakespeare)
    Critics say that Falstaff has sexual ambiguity.
    Maccabe says that the word womb was in semantic
    tradition and in older sense was used for stomach
    of both men and women.
    But in transition it implies the meanings related to
    gender differences and these meanings remained
    hidden from the reader.
    CONTINUES
    Stylisticians attempt to establish general points
    about how literary meanings are made.
    It addresses the general question- how literature
    works as a whole.
    Literary affect is created simultaneously in terms
    of both form and content.
    Example:
    Tess of the D Urbervilles
    Here a sentence goes like this:
    He(Subject) touched her(Object).
    Form and Content simultaneously show how a literary work
    works and meanings are made.
    ANY
    QUESTIONS

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