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The Stylistics Reader: From Roman Jakobson to the Present

Language and Literature Copyright &copy; 1998 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi), Vol 7(1): 91-95 The Sylistics Reader, edited by Jean Jacques Weber, draws together different theories and methods in the field of stylistics from, as its sub-title indicates, ’Roman Jakobson to the present’. The first part of the book includes papers from the 1960s and 1970s (by Jakobson, Halliday and Fish), each of which is followed by more recent work that challenges these early perspectives. Later sections of the book describe and demonstrate a variety of contemporary approaches. It is an invaluable book for the student of stylistics because, on the whole, it facilitates critical judgement of an area of linguistic work which has been variously hailed as a scientific antidote to the (so-called) woolly vagueness of literary criticism, condemned as intellectually unprincipled and unsound, and brandished