Style articles from March 2003

Style archives from March 2003

Using foregrounding theory as a teaching methodology in a stylistics course.
March 22, 2003... 1. Introduction In the student feedback to recent presentations of LING 131 Language and Style, when asked about the positive features of the course, students made the following typical comments: "Lectures -- always entertaining!...

What is literature, really? A corpus-driven study of students' statements.
March 22, 2003... 1. Introduction It is a truth universally known that literary education aims at "promoting an environment in which students acquire tools which help them articulate emotional responses, make moral or ethical evaluations and discuss the...

Designing a worldwide web-based stylistics course and investigating its effectiveness.
March 22, 2003... 1. Introduction At Lancaster University we are currently developing an introductory web-based course for students interested in the stylistic analysis of literary texts. The eventual aim is to run an experiment, in Lancaster and elsewhere,...

Teaching Melville and style: a catalogue of selected rhetorical devices.
March 22, 2003... My interest in Melville as stylist evolved while directing a fourth-year English course on Hawthorne and Melville in 1994-95. To my surprise and dismay, my students' first-term essays on Hawthorne demonstrated their competence in writing about...

Analogy and multi-modal exploration in the teaching of language theory.(includes table: Features Distinguishing Description from Depiction)
March 22, 2003... 1. Introduction This article reports on an experiment in teaching at Huddersfield University (UK) during the academic year 2001-2002. The teaching took place in the context of the first year of a single honors English Language degree...

Vagrant sympathies: from stylistic analysis to a pedagogy of style.
March 22, 2003... In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their race, but by the words they use. Writing begins with language, and it is in that initial choosing, as one sifts through the...

Checklist of American and British programs in stylistics and literary linguistics.(Directory)
March 22, 2003... Stylistics and literary linguistics examine the use of linguistics and language study in the analysis of literary and non-literary texts and the effects of particular language on readers. Finding a university with a program specifically...

Talking the walk in cognitive stylistics.(Language and characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts)(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Jonathan Culpeper, Language and characterisation: People in Plays and Other Texts. London: Longman/Pearson Education, 2001. 328 pp. No price. Jonathan Culpeper has made a significant contribution to the study of literary character in drama...

The Sequential Dynamics of Narrative: Energies at the Margins of Fiction.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Ken Ireland. The Sequential Dynamics of Narrative: Energies at the Margins of Fiction. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. 331 pp. $49.50 cloth. My desire to distinguish the value of the content of The Sequential...

Books received.
March 22, 2003... Crawford, Paul. Politics and History in William Golding: The World Turned Upside Down. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2002. $37.50 cloth. Felber, Lynette. Literary Liaisons: Auto/biographical Appropriations in Modernist Women's Fiction. DeKalb:...