Hope Jonathan - Stylistics: a Practical Coursebook

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Bambara, Toni Cade, Sweet Town (1959) (5.4) and The Survivor (1972) (3.2) from Gorilla, My Love, The Womens Press (1984).

The Salt Eaters, The Womens Press (1980) (2.9).

Beckett, Samuel, Molloy (1955) from The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Mallone Dies, TheUnnamable, Picador (1979) (4.4).

Bellow, Saul, Humboldts Gift (1973, Penguin [1976]) (3.4).

Boehmer, Elleke, Screens against the Sky, Bloomsbury (1990) (3.3). Brentford Chiswickand Isleworth Times, 3 September 1993 (5.2, 5.4).

Brookner, Anita, A Friend from England (1987, Grafton Books [1988]) (1.2).

A Family Romance, Jonathan Cape (1993) (3.14).

Burn, Gordon, Alma Cogan, Seeker & Warburg (1991) (1.6, 2.5).

Carey, Peter, The Tax Inspector, Faber & Faber (1991) (4.1).

Chandler, Raymond, The Big Sleep, Hamish Hamilton (1939, Penguin [1948]) (1.8).

Farewell, My Lovely (1940, Penguin [1949]) (2.3).

The Lady in the Lake, Hamish Hamilton (1944, Penguin [1952]) (2.3).

Compton-Burnett, Ivy, A God and His Gifts (1963, Penguin [1983]) (4.3).

Conrad, Joseph, Typhoon (1903, Oxford Paperbacks [1986]) (3.13).

Deighton, Len, Billion-Dollar Brain (1966, Arrow [1991]) (2.3).

Dick, Philip K., The Man in the High Castle (1962, Penguin [1965]) (4.6).

Doyle, Roddy, The Snapper, Seeker & Warburg (1990, Minerva [1991]) (4.4).

Faulkner, William, The Sound and the Fury (1931, Penguin [1964]) (3.5).

Go Down, Moses, Random House (1942) (3.11).

Fitzgerald, F.Scott, The Great Gatsby (1926, Penguin [1950]) (1.5, 3.13).

Fitzgerald, Zelda, Our Own Movie Queen (1925) from The Collected Writings (1991, Abacus [1993]) (3.9).

Fleming, Ian, From Russia with Love (1957, Coronet [1988]) (1.3).

Green, Henry, Living (1929, Harvill [1991]) (3.9).

Pack my Bag (1940, Hogarth Press [1979]) (1.5).

Caught (1943, Harvill [1991]) (4.7).

Concluding, Hogarth Press (1948) (3.6).

Greene, Graham, Brighton Rock (1938, Penguin [1975]) (3.8).

Gibbons, Stella, Cold Comfort Farm (1932, Penguin [1938]) (1.7).

Hall, Adam, The Striker Portfolio (1969, Fontana [1975]) (2.3).

The Tango Briefing (1973, Fontana [1975]) (3.10).

Healy, Thomas, Rolling, Polygon (1992) (3.8).

Isherwood, Christopher, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935, Meuthen [1987]) (2.8, 5.5).

James, Henry, The Ambassadors (1903, Penguin [1973]) (3.7).

Janowitz, Tama, The Slaves in New York from Slaves of New York (1986, Picador [1987]) (2.1).

Johns, Captain W.E., Biggles in Australia (1955, Armada [1970]) (5.8).

Johnson, B.S., Christie Malrys Own Double-Entry (1973, Penguin [1984]) (5.3).

Joyce, James, Ulysses (1922, Penguin [1969]) (4.5).

Kipling, Rudyard, As Easy as ABC (1912) from A Diversity of Creatures, Macmillan (1917) (2.2).

Laing, Kojo, Major Gentl and the Achimota Wars, Heinemann African Writers Series (1992) (5.7).

Lodge, David, Nice Work, Seeker & Warburg (1988) (2.2).

McInerney, Jay, Brightness Falls, Bloomsbury (1992) (3.4).

Masters, John, Bhowani Junction, Michael Joseph (1954) (1.6).

Mathews, Harry, Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (farce double) (1978) from Miquel Barcel: Pinturas y Esculturas1993, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo (1994) (2.6).

Maugham, Somerset, My Ladys Parlour from On a Chinese Screen (1922, Oxford University Press [1985]) (1.2).

Mo, Timothy, Sour Sweet (1982, Abacus [1983]) (3.14).

Mukherjee, Bharati, Jasmine (1989, Virago [1991]) (1.7).

Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita (1955, Weidenfeld & Nicolson [1959]) (1.4).

Naipaul, Shiva, A Hot Country, Hamish Hamilton (1983) (2.7).

Naipaul, V.S., An Area of Darkness, Reprint Society Ltd, by arrangement with Andr Deutsch (1964) (3.10).

News of the World, 22 May 1994 (1.3).

Okara, Gabriel, The Voice (1964, Heinemann Educational [1970]) (4.6).

Orwell, George, Why I Write (1947) from Decline of the English Murder, Penguin (1965) (1.5).

Powell, Anthony, O, How the Wheel Becomes It! (1983, Mandarin [1992]) (5.2).

Rhys, Jean, Good Morning Midnight (1939, Andr Deutsch [1984]) (2.4).

Richardson, Dorothy, Pilgrimage (1915, Virago [1979]) (4.5).

Sansom, William, The Body, Hogarth Press (1949) (2.7).

Selvon, Sam, Moses Ascending, Davis-Poynter (1975) (1.8).

Sinclair, Iain, Downriver, Grafton Books (1991) (5.6).

Smith, Stevie, Novel on Yellow Paper (1936, Virago [1980]) (4.7).

Stafford, Jean, Boston Adventure (1944, Hogarth Press [1986]) (1.6,5.6).

Swift, Graham, Shuttlecock (1981, Penguin [1982]) (1.4).

Waterland (1983, Picador [1984]) (2.1).

Tutuola, Amos, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Faber & Faber (1952) (4.6).

Wain, John, Hurry on Down, Seeker & Warburg (1953) (4.3).

Wallington, Mark, The Missing Postman (1992, Warner [1993]) (4.2).

Wells, H.G., Tono-Bungay (1909, Pan Books [1964]) (3.12).

Using a wide range of twentieth-century literary prose, this book is an introduction to the techniques of stylistic analysis. The book also serves as a practical introduction to basic descriptive grammar from clause to text structure. The book is divided into five chapters, which are subdivided into sections. Each chapter corresponds to a major area of grammar, while each section focuses on a particular feature of the area. Sections are self-contained, with a definition of the feature, a text for analysis in which use of the feature is significant, a solution, and a verdict.