TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shen,Dan
TI  - Discourse and style: what narratology and stylistics can do for each other 
SN  - 9781040216460
U1  - 808/.036 23/eng/20241017
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Discourse analysis, Narrative
KW  - Literary style
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese
N2  - This book examines overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative. Narratology identifies discourse as one of its two main objects of study (story being the other), and stylistics, of course, designates style as its concern. Too often, however, work in each of these fields proceeds without attention to developments in the other. This book corrects that situation by looking beneath the superficial similarities between the discourse of narratology and the style of fictional stylistics. The author shows that the two seemingly interchangeable terms actually refer to different textual elements. For example, both narratology and stylistics identify point of view as an important element of discourse and style, respectively, but each approach conceives of it differently and thus analyzes it differently. This book argues that the different analyses are complementary and shows how they can be brought together. This synthesis leads to richer conceptions of point of view as well as more comprehensive and precise analyses of its functions and effects in individual narratives. For its theoretical and interpretive contributions, this book will appeal to scholars and students in narrative studies, literary stylistics, and literary theory and criticism
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003543015
ER  -