R. Burchfield: The English Language
R. Barthes: Critique et vérité
W. Booth: The Rhetoric of Fiction
A. Cluysenaar: An Introduction to Literary Stylistics
T. Hawkes: Structuralism and Semiotics (1977)
*G. Leech: A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry
D. Lodge: The Language of Fiction (1966)
*J. Culler: Structuralist Poetics
P. de Man. The Rhetoric of Romanticism (Ch.1)
V. Rubel: Poetic Diction in the English Renaissance.
T. Sebeok: Style in Language especially Jakobson's chapter.
T. Todorov: Introduction to Poetics (tr. R. Howard, 1981)
S. Ullman: Language and Style esp. Ch. 9
*W. Nowottny: The Language Poets Use
*G. Watson, ed.  Literary English since Shakespeare.
*G. Leech and M. Short: Style In Fiction (1981)

TOPICS

1. Literary Language

J. Mukarovsky: "Standard Language and Poetic Language" in D.C. Freeman ed. Language and Literary Style London 1970 or in S. Chatman and S.R. Levin: Essays on Language and Literature.
V. Shklovsky, 'Art as Technique'; R. Jakobson, 'Linguistics and Poetics' and 'The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles'; J. Derrida, 'Structure, sign and play in the discourse of human sciences; in D. Lodge, ed. Modern Criticism and Theory (1988).
W. Booth: The Rhetoric of Fiction
G. Leech and M. Short: Style in Fiction
J. Culler, Structuralist Poetics (1975)
R. Fowler, Linguistic Criticism (1986)
J. Tambling, What is Literary Language? (1988)
R. Carter and W. Nash, Seeing through Language (1989)
D. Attridge, Peculiar language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to Joyce (1988)
 
 

 2. Metaphor and Metonymy

I.A. Richards: Practical Criticism (1929)
T. Hawkes: Metaphor (1972)
R. Wellek and A. Warren: Theory of Literature (1949) Ch. 15
C. Brooke-Rose: A Grammar of Metaphor (1958)
look also at Johnson's Dictionary's definition of metaphor.
Sheldon Sacks: On Metaphor (for the theoretically minded)
Aristotle: Art of Rhetoric Book 3

3. Genre

see especially:
J. Culler: Structuralist Poetics Ch.7
T. Todorov: The Fantastic in Fiction tr. V. Mylne, in Twentieth Century Studies 3 (1970)
R. Scholes: Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction NY 1974. 117-41
C. Guillén: Literature as System Princeton 1971. Essay 4: 'On the Uses of Literary Genre.'
R. Wellek and A. Warren: Theory of Literature (1949) Ch. 17.
H. Dubrow: Genre (Methuen Critical Idiom)

4. Relations between written and oral discourse

W. J. Ong, Orality and Literacy,
R. Finnegan, Oral Poetry: its Nature, Significance and Social Context (1977)
A. Easthope, Poetry as Discourse (ch. on ballad)
Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
D. Buchan, The Ballad and the Folk (1972)
N. F. Blake, Non Standard Language in English Literature
R. Chapman, Linguistics and Literature, (ch. on sound and meaning)
N. Page, Speech in the English Novel (1987)
G. Leech and M. Short, Style in Fiction ch.s 8, 9, and 10.
J. Derrida, Of Grammatology, pp. 107-40.
M. Stubbs, Language and Literacy: The Sociolinguistics of Reading and Writing,
J. Goody, The Interface between Orality and Literacy (1989).
V. Edwards and T. J. Sienkewicz, Oral Cultures Past and Present (1990)
 

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