Volume : I, Issue : II, October - 2012

Style and Stylistics

Riju Sharma

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Language and style never moves beyond a concentration on the supremacy of words. Style is a distinctive way of writing literary texts whereas Stylistics is the interpretation of texts from a linguistic perspective and has a long and often illustrious history forming parts of some of the most important monuments of literary studies, dating back to Aristotles Poetics. In spite of its long tradition of importance, stylistics has been relegated to a minor role over the past few decades, for reasons that are multifarious, but most saliently include the augment of critical theory and the dominion of Chomsky’s linguistics. The lexico – syntactic patterns and choices, the phonological, morphological and graphological devices are the main stylistic elements that trigger and play important roles in passing the intention of the writer across. This article is an attempt to elucidate and depict that style is effectively manipulated in ways that signal it as different from ‘ordinary’ language by stylistically analyzing a poem by Robert Graves.

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Riju Sharma Style and Stylistics Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.II, Issue.I October 2012

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