Twentieth-Century Poetry - 9780415058629

Taylor & Francis

This textbook, based on extensive teaching experience,makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary texts. > This textbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to the practice of literary stylistics. It is based on extensive teaching experience, and makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary texts.The twelve chapters, written by experts in the field, provide a firm foundation for the development of language and context-based literary criticism. The book allows students to increase their creative responsiveness to the interplay between text and context, and between language and social situation. > \nSeries editor\u2019s introduction Introduction 1 To analyse a poem stylistically: \u2018To Paint a Water Lily\u2019 by Ted Hughes 2 Person to person: relationships .