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Mehmet Aslan, PhD

Code
ELL 222
Name
Stylistics
Semester
4
Lecture hours
3.00
Seminar hours
0.00
Laborator hours
0.00
Credits
3.00
ECTS
5.00
Description

This course aims to approach students` reading to styles of writing. Students get to know the style of language and how this results from the intra linguistic factors such as author, genre, historical period etc.

Objectives

Students get to understand how insights from linguistics can be applied in the analysis of literary texts, in order to explain how texts mean and what interpretative effects such texts have on readers.

Java
Tema
1
Introduction/ Preliminaries/ Analyzing literature through language: Two Shakespearean speeches.
2
Methodologies for stylistic analysis: Practices and pedagogies/ The stylistics of Poetry: Walter De La Mare
3
A cognitive stylistic reading of rhetorical patterns in Ted Hughes`s poetry. A possible role for stylistics in a literary critical controversy
4
Text worlds in Poetry/ Syntactic iconicity and reader interpretation in contemporary poems
5
The stylistics of drama: Universal elements
6
‘See better, Lear’? See Lear better! A corpus based pragma stylistic investigation of Shakespeare`s King Lear
7
Activity types, Incongruity and humour in dramatic discourse
8
Midterm Exam
9
The stylistics of narrative fiction/ authorian style
10
The intrinsic importance of sentence type and clause type to narrative effect: Or, How Alice Munro`s Circle of Prayer gets started
11
Detective fiction, plot construction and reader manipulation: Rhetorical control and cognitive misdirection in Agatha Christie`s Sparkling Cyanide.
12
Wmatrix, key concepts and the narrators in Julian Barnes`s Talking it Over/ Writing presentation, the epistolary novel and free indirect thought
13
“Appeased by the certitude”: The quiet disintegration of the paranoid mind in The Moustache
14
Corpus approaches to prose fiction: Civility and body language in Pride an Prejudice
15
Non-literary language: A stylistic invesigation of the cover pages of the British satirical magazine Private Eye
16
Final Exam
1
Students can come to the cutting edge of this discipline as well as convey the practical means by which stylistic analysis can be carried out.
2
At the end of the course, students know what links corpus based analysis to the more qualitative endavours of the past and how is cognitive stylistics related to literary criticism more generally.
3
At the end of the course, students know what are the fundamental principles of stylistics and how are these reflected in current research.
Quantity Percentage Total percent
Midterms
1 40% 40%
Quizzes
0 0% 0%
Projects
0 0% 0%
Term projects
0 0% 0%
Laboratories
0 0% 0%
Class participation
1 10% 10%
Total term evaluation percent
50%
Final exam percent
50%
Total percent
100%
Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
Course duration (including exam weeks)
16 3 48
Off class study hours
14 3 42
Duties
0 0 0
Midterms
1 9 9
Final exam
1 14 14
Other
2 6 12
Total workLoad
125
Total workload / 25 (hours)
5.00
ECTS
5.00