Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature

by H.G. Widdowson

Overview

This volume forms part of the Applied Linguistics and Language Study collection that looks at the field of analysing and appreciating literary texts. First published in 1975, this text makes a considerable contribution to extending our view of the principles underlying language teaching and curriculum design. The author begins by distinguishing the idea that discipline from the pedagogic subject in order to demonstrate that stylistics is Janus like in the way it can be treated, for example, at school or university, as a way from linguistics to literary study or the reverse. To understand this bidirectionality he explains distinctions between the linguist’s text and the critic’s messages by introducing the concept of discourse as a means through which to understand the communicative value of passages of language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582550766
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/18/1975
Series:	Applied Linguistics and Language Study
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

Introductory; Chapter 1 Aims and perspectives; Part 1 Part One; Chapter 2 Literature as text; Chapter 3 Literature as discourse; Chapter 4 The nature of literary communication; Part 2 Part Two; Chapter 5 Literature as subject and discipline; Chapter 6 Exercises in literary understanding; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Stylistic analysis and literary appreciation;