1. SCHOOL of
CRITICISM
*stylistic

2. Stylistic
Style is the manner in which
something is presented, and
this approach concentrates on
the peculiarities of diction and
imagery employed, sometimes
relating them to literary and
social theory.

3. Stylistics
-is a valuable if long-winded
approach to criticism, and compels
attention to the poem's details. Two
of the three simple exercises
performed here show that the poem
is deficient in structure, and needs
to be radically recast. The third
sheds light on its content.

4. Stylistics
-applies linguistics to literature
in the hope of arriving at
analyses which are more
broadly based, rigorous and
objective.

5. STEPHEN CRANEÆS
•>stylistics represents a
promising area not only
because stylistic analysis
involves both fields, but
because such an analysis
makes possible a more
complex approach to
literature.

6. Strength
-the focus is on linguistic
devices or applications at the
phonological, lexical, or
syntactic level, whichever
proves to be meaningful in any
kind of literary interpretation.

7. Why then
employ
stylistics
at
all?

8. Because form is important in
poetry, and stylistics has the largest
armoury of analytical weapons.
Moreover, stylistics need not be
reductive and simplistic.

9. Why then
employ
stylistics
at
all?

10. -Stylistics suggests why
certain devices are effective;
- Stylistics is a very technical
subject, which hardly makes for
engrossing, or indeed
uncontentious, reading.

11. Some stylistic analysis is to
be found in most types of
literary criticism, and
differences between the
traditional, New Criticism and
Stylistics approaches are often
matters of emphasis.

12. Published Examples of Stylistic
Literary Criticism
*G.N. Leech's A Linguistic Guide to
English Poetry (1969)
*Laura Brown's Alexander Pope (1985)
*Roy Lewis's On Reading French
Verse: A Study in Poetic Form (1982)
*George Wright's Shakespeare's
Metrical Art. (1988)
*Richard Bradford's A Linguistic History
of English Poetry (1993)

13. Source :
http//www.textec.com/critic
ism
Ana Marie B. Cordova