This refreshingly straightforward and accessible textbook introduces students who might not have a linguistic background, to the study of literary texts. Gregoriou takes an innovative, genre-based approach, providing students with the analytical skills and theoretical approaches they need to interpret the language of literature.

CHRISTIANA GREGORIOU is Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK.

Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An 'overview' of Literary Stylistics
Naming Poetic Parts
Poetic Figures, Foregrounding and Metaphor
Stylistics of Poetry Practice
Narrators, Viewpoint, Speech and Thought
Narrative Worlds, Schemata and Frames
Stylistics of Prose Practice
Structure and Characterisation in Drama
The Pragmatics of Drama
Stylistics of Drama Practice
Concluding
Remarks
Bibliography.