International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 10(3), pp. 53-64, November 2022

 ISSN: 2360-7831

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijelc2022210

 

Review

 

Abstract

 

This review aims to provide theoretical concepts of literary stylistics. Stylistics is the study of style. It can be seen as having various types based on its specific orientation. The paper deals with concepts, historical developments, types, approaches and basic features of literary stylistics. As the review shows, literary stylistics is not homogenous. As a result, there can be many ways of approaching literary stylistics since each type has its own concern in studying literary texts though they share certain stylistic features. Literary style is a phenomenon differing in form from person to person, place to place, time to time, genre to genre and language to language. Style is also resulted from linguistic choices, which effectively express the writer’s unique thought and feeling. Literary style is a means of discovery for both writer and reader and sharpens expressive meaning as well as referential meaning, intensifying the tone of writing, making prose more persuasive. Literary style is not mere ornament; rather it conveys important subtleties of meaning and evaluation, which define the nature of the writer, his/her basic attitudes, his/her presuppositions, his/her moral stance, and his/her relation to his/her subject and reader.

 

Keywords: Stylistics, concepts, historical developments, types, approaches and basic features of literary stylistics  

 

Cite This Article As: Woldemariam, M.W. (2022). Basic Issues in Literary Stylistics. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 10(3): 53-64