Ficha técnica de una asignatura en una titulación

14185 La Estilística del Inglés - L.FILOL.INGLESA 00

Centro

Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación

Departamento

Filología Inglesa y Alemana

Profesor responsable

Sin datos cargados

Met. Docent

Wherever possible the course aims at a close interdependence between stylistic theory and practical, illustrative work mostly based on literary texts.

Met. Avaluació

Examen Final y trabajo

Bibliografia

Austen, Jane (1816) Emma. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1985.
Bradford, Michael (1997) Stylistics. London/New York: Routledge.
Carter, Ronald (ed.) (1982) Language and Literature. London: Routledge.
Crystal, David & Derek Davy (1969) Investigating English Style. London: Longman.

Continguts

Descripción del curso/Contents for the course:

PART A: THEORY
1.- MAIN CONCEPTS IN STYLISTICS
1.1. Introduction to style and stylistics. Definition of style and stylistics.
1.2. The concepts of text and discourse.
1.3. Linguistic functions.

2.- MAIN APPROACHES TO STYLISTICS
2.1. Formalist stylistics
2.2. Funcionalist stylistics
2.3. Stylistics and teaching
2.4. Pragmatic stylistics
2.5. Critical stylistics
2.6. Feminist stylistics

3.- STYLISTICS AND RHETORIC
3.1. Creative texts. Literary and non-literary uses and varieties. Stylistics vis a vis literary discourse.
3.2. Literary genres: prose, poetry, drama.
3.3. Figures of speech & rhetorical figures:
3.3.1. Graphology and Phonology (Alliteration, Epenthesis, Metathesis, Onomotopoeia, Rhythm, Rhyme, Syncope à)
3.3.2. Morphology and Syntax (Anaphora, Ellipsis, Hyperbaton, Pleonasm, Periphrasis, Polysyndeton, Synonymy à)
3.3.3. Lexis and Semantics (Tropes: Hyperbole, Irony, Litotes, Metaphor, Metonymy, Oxymoron, Synecdoche à)
3.3.4. Discourse.

4.- GENDER AND STYLISTICS
4.1. The gendered sentence (æwomanÆs sentenceÆ or the écriture féminine)
4.2. Gender and reader positions
4.3. Gender and genre
4.4. Sexism in language

PART B: PRACTICE
5.- PRACTICAL STYLISTIC ANALYSES
Case study # 1: Virginia Woolf, A Room of OneÆs Own (1929)
Case study # 2: Ernest Hemingway, ôSoldierÆs Homeö (1925), ôMr. and Mr