Download or read book Teaching Stylistics written by Lesley Jeffries and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts, has a key role to play in literary criticism. This book covers the theory and practice of teaching stylistics, focusing on the value of objectivity, rigour and replicability in text analysis.