Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the use of elements of language style, such as metaphor, in particular contexts.
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- noun linguistics The study of
literary style , and how it changes within differentcontexts .
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Examples
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Twitteresque – digital stylistics or path to a higher being?
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This stylistic strategy seems to me a genuine contribution to literary stylistics specifically and to American literature more generally.
October 2009 2009
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Might it have something to do with the fact that reviewers are almost exclusively authors themselves, and perhaps more concerned with promoting their own thematic preferences and flaunting their prose stylistics than actually writing an accurate, even-handed review?
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Twitteresque – digital stylistics or path to a higher being?
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This stylistic strategy seems to me a genuine contribution to literary stylistics specifically and to American literature more generally.
Style in Fiction 2009
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This is not unintentional, nor is it mere stylistics.
Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation 2010
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Equally, in his brisk 1987 thriller Best Seller – about an author-cop who sees a way out of his writer's block via a corporate hitman's psychopathic life story – it's Larry Cohen's cynical, subversive script that registers most strongly, not the stylistics of John Flynn.
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This stylistic strategy seems to me a genuine contribution to literary stylistics specifically and to American literature more generally.
Kerouac the Writer 2009
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How does the utilization of diction, tone and stylistics aid to the story?
Tonight 6-22: Rob Schlegel at Broadway Books - Reading Local: Portland 2010
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How does the utilization of diction, tone and stylistics aid to the story?
Portland Book Events: June 19-25 - Reading Local: Portland 2010
artoparts commented on the word stylistics
The study of linguistic factors that place a discourse in context.
February 14, 2009