ENH1230

Language, style and literature

(ART)

P Groves

6 points + 2.5 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prerequisite: ENH1010

Synopsis: Introduction to discourse stylistics as a method for examining literary texts. How linguistic structures and patterns function to produce different kinds of stylistic effects in literary texts. Theoretical approaches to stylistic analysis, including formalism, structuralism and semiotics. Metre and other kinds of rhythmic form; metrical style; soundpatterning and its affective and iconic potential; poetic diction; the functioning of metaphor, metonymy and other forms of figurative language; formal rhetoric; and the syntactic and discoursal analysis of texts.

Assessment: Exercise in parody (800 words): 10% + Essay (1200 words): 20% + Two brief class tests (one on syntax and one on metre): 10% each + Seminar paper: 10% + Examination (2 hours): 40%