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Stylistics explores how readers interact with the language of literary texts in order to explain how we understand, and are affected by them as we read. Stylistics grew up in the second half of the twentieth century in interaction between linguistics and literary criticism. It analyzes style in writing as a series of linguistic choices. In this seminar, we will explore textual choice on various linguistic levels in literary texts to get a sense of the relation between linguistic choice and meaning, style and effect.
In order to obtain course credit, a student must pass a short quiz in the third week of the tutorial, give two oral presentations in class and write a 12-15 page term paper. The first presentation is a reading report on a book or a few articles, and the second is on work in progress leading to the term paper. More information will be available on the English Linguistics homepage.
The voluntary tutorial with Matthias Heyne offers students an opportunity to explore current research in stylistics and approaches to various types of (literary) texts as well as to gain practice in academic writing and oral presentation. Students who would like to participate in the seminar should register via Clix. |
