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What is Stylistics and What is Not
1. What is Stylistics and What is Not?
2. Decoding stylistics
minimum commentary on thehistorical, cultural,
biographical background
Regard the esthetic value of a
text
No judgmental reflections or
talking about preferences and
tastes
Look at the organization of
textual elements to deliver
the author's message
No simple registration of
stylistic devices in the text
Try to explain or decode the
information that may be
hidden
3. Questions
1.What’s happening? What objects or
people are depicted? What shapes, colors
and techniques are used?
2.
Why? What each of the details means?
3.
What’s the message?
4.
The Toilet ofVenus
by Diego
Velázquez
5.
Rain, Steamand Speed
by William
Turner
6.
The GreatWave Off
Kanagawa
by Katsushika
Hokusai
7.
Starry NightOver the
Rhone by
Vincent Van
Gogh
8. Main principles of analysis
ConvergenceDefeated
expectancy
an accumulation
of stylistic devices
promoting the
same idea,
emotion or
motive.
A deviation
from the norm
and
predictability