Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice : a Stylistic Exploration of John Fowles's The Magus.

In this book, Yufang Ho compares the text style difference between the two versions of John Fowles' The Magus, exemplifying the methodological principles and analytic practices of the corpus stylistic approach. The Magus was first published in 1966 and was revised and republished by Fowles in 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ho, Yufang
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2011.
Series:Advances in stylistics.
Subjects:
Fowles, John, > 1926-2005. > Magus > Criticism and interpretation.
Magus (Fowles, John)
Corpora (Linguistics)
English language > Style.
Corpus (Linguistique)
Anglais (Langue) > Stylistique.
English language > Style
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Corpus stylistics
  • general principles; Chapter One: What is corpus stylistics?; Chapter Two: Exploring The Magus using corpus stylistic analysis; Part II: Corpus stylistics in practice
  • a comparative analysis of The Magus; Chapter Three: Introduction to The Magus (M[sup(1)]) and its revision (M[sup(2)]); Chapter Four: Quantitative comparison
  • measuring the degree of text similarity; Chapter Five: Qualitative stylistic comparison
  • generating hypotheses; Chapter Six: Comparing lexical semantic patterns
  • testing hypothesis 1.

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