Stylistics: A Prctical Coursebook

Using a wide range of twentieth-century literary prose Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope provide an 'interactive' introduction to the techniques of stylistic analysis. Divided up into five sections; the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the clause, text structure and vocabulary, the book also provides an introduction to the basics of descriptive grammar for beginning students.

• Presumes no prior linguistic knowledge

• Provides a comprehensive glossary of terms

• Adaptable: designed to be used in a variety of classroom contexts

• Introduces students to an enormous range of 20th century literature from James Joyce to Roddy Doyle A practical coursebook rather than a survey account of stylistics as a discipline, the book provides over forty opportunities for hands-on stylistic analysis. For each linguistic feature under discussion the reader is offered a definition, a text for analysis, exercises and tasks, in addition to a suggested solution.
Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook is genuinely 'student friendly' and will be an invaluable tool for all beginning undergraduates and A-level students of language and literature.

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Presents the story of the Microcosm hypermedia research and development project that started in the late 1980s at the University of Southampton in England, and from which has emerged a philosophy that re-examines the whole concept of hypermedia and its role in the evolution of multimedia information systems. Explains the initial motivation, the history of hypermedia, the first experimental prototype that became the name of the project, using open hypertext, authoring, the web and distributed systems, and the future. Many individual reports have come out of the project, but this is the first account of it as a whole. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)