Style in Fiction

Author: Michael H. Short
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138134317
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
"Stylistics" is the study of language in the service of literary ends, and in Style in Fiction, Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short demonstrate how stylistic analysis can be applied to novels and stories. Writing for both students of English language and English literature, they show the practical ways in which linguistic analysis and literary appreciation can be combined, and illuminated, through the study of literary style. Drawing mainly on major works of fiction of the last 150 years, their practical and insightful examination of style through texts and extracts leads to a deeper understanding of how prose writers achieve their effects through language. Since its first publication in 1981, Style in Fiction has established itself as a key textbook in its field, selling nearly 30,000 copies. Now, in this revised edition, the authors have added substantial new material, including two completely new concluding chapters. These provide an extensive, up-to-date survey of developments in the field over the past 25 years, and apply the methods presented in earlier chapters to an analysis of an entire short story. The Further Reading section and the bibliographical references have also been thoroughly updated. In 2005 Style in Fiction was awarded the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the most influential book published in the field of stylistics 1980. Further proof, if proof were needed, that Style in Fiction remains a classic guide to its discipline.

小说文体论

Author: Geoffrey N. Leech
Publisher:
ISBN: 9787560023823
Category : American fiction
Languages : zh-CN
Pages : 450

Book Description
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The Value of Style in Fiction

Author: Garrett Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107193850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
This is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis across dozens of significant authors.

Style in Fiction

Author: Geoffrey Leech
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Winner of the 25th Anniversary Prize by PALA (The Poetics and Linguistics Association) as the most influential book published in the field of stylistics 1980. In Style in Fiction, Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short demonstrate how stylistic analysis can be applied to novels and stories. Writing for both students of English language and English literature, they show the practical ways in which linguistic analysis and literary appreciation can be combined, and illuminated, through the study of literary style. Drawing mainly on major works of fiction of the last 150 years, their practical and insightfu.

Voice and Style

Author: Johnny Payne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780898796933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
How to develop your own voice as a writer, hone your personal writing style, and create powerful character voices in your fiction.

Fashion in Fiction

Author: Peter McNeil
Publisher: Berg Publishers
ISBN: 9781847883575
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
Fashion in Fiction examines the ways in which dress 'performs' in a wide range of contemporary and historical literary texts. Essays by North American, European and Australian scholars explore the function of clothing within fictional narratives, including those of film, television and advertising. The book provides a groundbreaking examination of the interconnected worlds of fashion and words, providing perspectives from socio-cultural, historical and theoretical readings of fashion and text-based communication.Covering a variety of genres and periods, Fashion in Fiction analyses fashion's role within a range of creative media, exploring the many ways that dress communicates, disrupts and modulates meaning across different cultures and contexts.

#1 Best Seller

Author: Bryan W. Heathman
Publisher: Made For Success Publishing
ISBN: 1641462876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
The rules of book marketing are changing and the traditional rules of book marketing no longer apply. A new era of marketing books is upon us….an approach in which authors are authenticity engaging their audiences. But how do you start? Today’s mega-success authors are no longer writers, but they are entrepreneurs who expertly work a strategy which leverages the power of social media, search engine optimization (SEO), advertising, speaking, bookstore signings and a combination of other program that are incredibly rewarding to the author. Every author wants a roadmap, or a step-by-step guide for a successful book launch. To book marketing professionals in large publishing houses this is the Holy Grail, so they can repeat the success of their last book launch campaign. With this system, you will no longer have the guesswork associated with which marketing programs to run for a successfully launch of your book. Bryan Heathman has managed hundreds of book marketing campaigns and scientifically created a repeatable 15-week system to promote non-fiction books. Bryan’s approach to book marketing in this book was inspired by running massively successful campaigns which have resulted in New York Times best sellers, Wall Street Journal best sellers, Amazon #1 best sellers. This book isn’t like most marketing books, which list a hundred things to do when marketing a book. This approach is distilled into a manageable system of a 15-week burst of activity, which when completed in a scheduled time-frame are proven to produce the results you desire for a successful book launch. Trust the system and eliminate the guesswork as you work towards your #1 best-selling book.

The Business of Editing

Author: Richard H. Adin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781434103727
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 462

Book Description

The Program Era

Author: Mark McGurl
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
In The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the university has reorganized American literature and—even more important—how the increasing intimacy of writing and schooling can be brought to bear on a reading of this literature. McGurl argues that far from occasioning a decline in the quality or interest of American writing, the rise of the creative writing program has instead generated a complex and evolving constellation of aesthetic problems that have been explored with energy and at times brilliance by authors ranging from Flannery O’Connor to Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison. Through transformative readings of these and many other writers, The Program Era becomes a meditation on systematic creativity—an idea that until recently would have seemed a contradiction in terms, but which in our time has become central to cultural production both within and beyond the university. An engaging and stylishly written examination of an era we thought we knew, The Program Era will be at the center of debates about postwar literature and culture for years to come.

Radiance

Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765335298
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
"Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction, in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe"--Dust jacket flap.