Issues in Literary Stylisitcs

Anthology from the year 2014 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, Thi-Qar University (College of Education), language: English, abstract: A great deal has been published in and about the major issues in literary stylistics, but there has been no attempt, as far as I know, to provide a clear-cut guide to such issues for the students who are just embarking on their readings about such a rapidly developing and controversial field of study. This book aims at providing such students of Applied Linguistics with a collection of the author's research papers on different aspects of Literary Stylistics. Most of these papers have been published in different journals, and since these journals might be inaccessible to the students, this book comes to make such papers available to the targeted readers. The collection is designed to meet the need of Applied Linguistics and Literary Stylistics majors by giving them a sort of familiarity with various topics in Literary Stylistics. It may also be used as a supplementary material for post-graduate students in Literary Stylistics. Moreover, I hope that this book will be particularly a useful guide to help researchers navigate and appreciate the diverse, ever expanding and exciting landscape of Literary Stylistics. It is true that it incorporates different theoretical orientations and stylistic domains, yet achieves an overall coherence through the sequencing of papers: this sequencing is intended to address three major issues on "style": 1. style as deviation from a given expectation 2. style as choice 3. style as recurrence. These three issues represent the most debatable linguistic definitions of 'style'. Style as deviation from a norm is particularly relevant to signal out one specific text from others and it has its great benefits in authorship attribution. Style as choice determines the linguistic system or repertoire from which the writer has made his stylistic choices. Style as recurrence investigates the co-occurrences of certain linguistic features that could be structural, lexical, etc., a matter which provides the researcher with an idea about the way the writer's language manifests its probabilistic nature. There are three parts in the book, the first part has three papers given over to the first issue. The second goes on with other three papers dedicated to the second issue. The third exposes two papers related to the third issue. It is the author's stance that gives priority, in terms of the number of papers dedicated for each issue, to the first two issues over the third. I have tried to maintain a balance between the three issu