1st Edition

Political Stylistics Popular Language as Literary Artifact

By Pascale Gaitet Copyright 1992
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1992, Political Stylistics draws together ideas about society and language from a range of theorists including Pratt, Bourdieu, Goody and Watt, and Bakhtin, to establish a political stylistics: a way of studying the formal properties of texts based on the principle that all linguistic production operates within the intricate network of power relations that structure the social... Read more

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A political stylistics 2. Zola’s L’Assommoir 3. Celine’s Voyage au bout de la nuit 4. Queneau’s Zazie dans le metro 5. Popular language as literary artifact Notes Index

Biography

Pascale Gaitet