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Cursus: UCACCMET2G
UCACCMET2G
Stylistics
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeUCACCMET2G
Studiepunten (EC)2,5
Cursusdoelen
After completing the course, students will be able to:
  • Describe how stylistics emerged out of the classical world of rhetoric and poetics
  • Explain the role Russian Formalism has played in the development of modern stylistics
  • Reflect on foregrounding effects and on the necessary comprehension, processing and retention procedures experienced by readers
  • Conduct various short stylistic analyses of literary texts using (a) the foregrounding model of levels of linguistics units (both within and beyond the sentence), and (b) some discourse models/theories
  • Separate and classify schemes and tropes within the foregrounding framework
Inhoud
This stylistics module is primarily intended for humanities students with an interest in linguistics, literary studies or media studies. The module may also be relevant for some social science students (especially psychologists) with an interest in cognitive text processing strategies and reception strategies.
 
Stylistics, sometimes known as ‘literary linguistics’ or ‘literary stylistics’ is a linguistics-based method of literary criticism that emerged in the early twentieth century with the advent of Russian Formalism with its inherent notion of foregrounding/estrangement. Its real roots, however, are in the world of classical rhetoric and poetics. Stylistics is also a pedagogical tool for the learning of grammatical categories and parts of speech that occur in a semi-natural discourse environment. In addition, stylistic analysis also employs a number of text and discourse theories as methods of analysis including, relevance theory, conversation analysis, speech act theory, etc. Stylistics does not just analyse literary texts, but also looks at everyday texts and the text-image interface that can be found in the discourse of comics, hypertext fiction, multimodal texts, etc.
 
Format
This course is a workshop-style, practice-intensive, interactive course for which a high level of qualitative participation is required (learning by doing). Students must therefore be vocal during all sessions: debating, critiquing, analysing and discussing. The following factors are also considered when determining the overall participation grade. The course will be graded based on (a) the end of term exam, which will be worth 75%, and on (b) active participation, what might be termed a combination of attendance, preparation and participation (APP), which will constitute the remaining 25% of the course grade. Students will be expected to have prepared well for the class; this includes completing all assigned reading and any assigned homework exercises/assignments.

Schedule
This course is taught during the last five weeks of the semester. It uses the same timeslot as the UCACCMET25 group did during the first ten weeks.
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