An Introduction to the Language of Literature

This book presents an introduction to stylistics for students of literature. It does not presuppose linguistic knowledge, but it approaches literature in a linguistic way. In the first half it looks at the make-up of a sentence in English and how sentence

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THE LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE

General Editor: N. F. Blake Professor of English Language and Linguistics. University of Sheffield Published titles An Introduction to the Language of Literature The Language of Shakespeare The Language of Chaucer The Language of Wordsworth and Coleridge The Language of Irish Literature The Language of D. H. Lawrence The Language of Thomas Hardy The Language of Drama The Language of jane Austen The Language of the Metaphysical Poets The Language of james joyce The Language of Twentieth-Century Poetry The Language of George Orwell The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry

N. F. Blake N. F. Blake David Burnley Frances Austin Loreto Todd Allan Ingram Raymond Chapman David Birch Myra Stokes Frances Austin Katie Wales Lesley Jeffries Roger Fowler G. A. Lester

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Contents Preface

Introduction

1 Sentence Structure 2 Group Structure: The Noun Group 3 4 5 6

Group Structure: The