Style articles from December 2003

Style archives from December 2003

Translator's introduction.(Editorial)
December 22, 2003... Boris Tomashevskii (1890-1957) was one of the major figures in the short-lived Russian Formalist movement. As this survey article explains, the Formalist school was indeed a new one at the time he was writing it (1927)--just a little more than...

The new school of literary history in Russia. *.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... [1. Emergence] Since the first years of the twentieth century, a pronounced and continually growing interest has been perceptible in Russia in the aesthetic appreciation of literary works. Jouranlists' criticism has given way to that of...

M. A. K. Halliday's continuum of prose styles and the stylistic analysis of scientific texts.
December 22, 2003... In this article, I describe the tools that M. A. K. Halliday commonly uses to analyze prose styles, review a study that applies these tools to scientific texts, and describe some stylistic investigations that research based on Halliday's tools...

Scene shift, metalepsis, and the metaleptic mode.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2003... When Gerard Genette coined the term "metalepsis" in the fifth chapter (on "Voice") of his Discours du recit, he defined it as "any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by diegetic characters into a...

Reflective encounters: illustrating comparative rhetoric.
December 22, 2003... Comparative rhetoric, according to George Kennedy, is "the cross-cultural study of rhetorical traditions as they exist or have existed in different societies around the world" (1). A young but promising enterprise, comparative rhetoric aims to...

Jakobson, method, and metaphor: a Wittgensteinian critique.
December 22, 2003... In his well-known essay "Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances" Roman Jakobson presents a theory of language based on certain empirical observations and discoveries. Jakobson examines aphasia, a disorder of language use,...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
December 22, 2003... In William Baker's review essay, "Concerning Gabriel Josipovici" (Style 37.2 [2003]: 238-44), several details were misstated. In particular, the second and third sentences in the first paragraph of the essay (238) should read: "To date...

Books received.
December 22, 2003... Bray, Jo. The Epistolary Novel." Representations of Consciousness. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature. New York: Routledge, 2003. $80.00 cloth. Courtivron, Isabelle de. Lives in Translation: Bilingual Writers on Identity...