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  • LANGUAGE, TEXT AND CONTEXT
    MICHAEL TOOLAN
    First published in 1992, this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation, description, theorising and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The collection aims to reveal the interdependencies between theory, analysis, text and context by challenging the myth that stylistics entails a fundamental sepa...

    $1,100.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF NARRATIVE TEXT
    MICHAEL TOOLAN
    This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on lexical patterning), narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work by Werth, Em...

    $1,340.00

  • LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE
    MICHAEL TOOLAN
    An activity-based introduction to stylistics, this textbook explains some of the topics in literary linguistics and helps students in analysing written texts. How can you tell good writing - the excellent, the brilliant and the ingenious - from bad writing - the weak, the banal and the confusing? By looking at the technique and the craft of writing, Language in Literature exami...

    $1,120.00

  • NARRATIVE
    MICHAEL TOOLAN
    This classic text has been substantially rewritten. Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their tellers, and those to whom they are addressed. New material includes sections on gendered narrative, film narrative and a discussion of ways in wh...

    $3,300.00