Concepts of Literary Language

General reading list

*D. Attridge, Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to

Joyce (1988)
N. F. Blake, Non-Standard Language in English Literature (1981)
R. Chapman, Linguistics and Literature: An Introduction to Literary Stylistics (1973)
R. Chapman, The Language of English Literature (1982) – chs 1, 4 and 5.
Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, ch. 18.
*J. Culler, Structuralist Poetics (1975), (esp. II.6 and Conclusion)
R. Carter and W. Nash, Seeing Through Language (1989)
S. Chatman, ed., Literary Style: A Symposium (1971)
*R. Fowler, Linguistic Criticism (1986)
*R. Jakobson, “Linguistics and Poetics,” in T.A. Sebeok, ed., Style in Language
(1960), repr. in D. Lodge, Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader.
*A. Jefferson & D. Robey, eds., Modern Literary Theory: a Comparative
Introduction, 2d.ed. (1984) chs. 1-4
*G. N. Leech, A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry (1969)
G. N. Leech and M. H. Short, Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English
Fictional Prose (Longman, 1981)
David Lodge’s Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader – extracts from Kristeva,
Jakobson and Shklovsky.
Toril Moi, ed., The Kristeva Reader (1986), chs 1-5
Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie
J. Tambling, What is Literary Language (1988)
G. Watson, ed., Literary English since Shakespeare (1980)
J. J. Weber ed., The Stylistics Reader, from Roman Jakobson to the Present (1996)
Wordsworth’s ‘Preface’ to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads.