Feminist stylistics

Montoro, Rocío

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“…Feminist stylistics (e.g. Mills, 1995;Montoro, 2014) intersecting substantially with feminist literary theory (e.g. Eagleton, 2010;Moi, 2002) must by definition be concerned with the representation of women and gender relations and thus with such issues as whether Leda is reprehensible pornography or a great work of art.…”

Section: Morality In Literature Analysis and Pedagogymentioning

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#Ledatoo: The morality of Leda and the Swan in teaching stylistics

Cook

2021

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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The article discusses the morality of W. B. Yeats’ sonnet Leda and the Swan in the context of a widening gap between the sexual mores of earlier times and our own, and whether the poem remains a suitable choice for the teaching of stylistics. I begin by examining stylistics treatments of the poem, and its political, social and artistic context, then move on to consider charges of misogyny against the poem for eroticising and failing to condemn the rape it depicts. To assess these charges I examine other literary uses of the Leda myth both before and after Yeats, including earlier poems which romanticise the rape, and later ones which vilify it. I also consider the implications of my discussion for the teaching of other canonical poems on similar themes. The last part of the paper discusses more generally the place of morality in literature and literature teaching, including stylistics: whether teachers and analysts should promote a moral world view and moral behaviour through their choice of texts and comments on them, or whether there are other valid criteria for selecting and describing a text such as Leda and the Swan. To elucidate current views, I draw parallels with the moral didacticism of the highly influential literary critic F. R. Leavis in the mid twentieth century, and ask whether aspects of his patrician view have undergone a surreptitious revival in some contemporary pedagogy and criticism at the beginning of the twenty first.

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Section: Morality In Literature Analysis and Pedagogymentioning

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#Ledatoo: The morality of Leda and the Swan in teaching stylistics

Cook

2021

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…Additionally, the study discussed that stylistics was a mean to evaluate the impact of linguistics on literary effects. Current trends in stylistics have resulted in the development of sub-disciplines in the form of feminist stylistics (Montoro, 2014), cognitive stylistics (Burke, 2015, pp. 75-93) and discourse stylistics (Naciscione, 2017); these are all sustained by insight from feminist theory, cognitive theory and discourse theory respectively.…”

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Stylistics, Literary Criticism, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Abdulmughni¹

2019

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There is confusion regarding the differences between linguistics, stylistics, literary criticism, and discourse analysis (DA) among teachers and learners of the English Major due to their overlapping natures, blurred boundaries, and analysis approaches. Therefore, the present study examines the similarities and differences of these four fields to make a clear demarcation between them. A descriptive and comparative approach using exemplary text was used in the study and the stylistics were thoroughly investigated, analyzed and exemplified in small-scale (one phrase, clause or sentence) or wider-scale (a paragraph). Finally, value judgments on the importance and value of the stylistics were furnished. This research enhances the prospects of pedagogical studies of different language learning and teaching of these four fields. This has opened the window for teacher-oriented studies and presented valid and genuine analytical and diagnostic studies of the related issues to enhance the accessibility of a clear distinction of the above stated fields.

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“…As stated above, these Handbooks represent major contributions to the discipline and this has been achieved by, crucially, avoiding sterile replication of material. For instance, several chapters in Burke focus on the analysis of what are considered general branches within the discipline, some of which are long-established – such as feminist stylistics (Montoro, 2014) or pedagogical stylistics (Hall, 2014) – with some others being more recent additions, such as (new) historical stylistics (Busse, 2014). In Stockwell and Whiteley, in contrast, various chapters highlight cross-fertilisation between stylistics and other disciplines by applying stylistics tenets to non-literary material, such as media stylistics (Lambrou and Durant, 2014) or political style (Charteris-Black, 2014).…”

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The Year’s Work in stylistics 2014

Montoro

2015

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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Stylistics investigates style. A straightforward enough task, it might seem to the uninitiated. Stylisticians, on the other hand, see the investigation as a complex, diverse, intricate and sophisticated enterprise firmly grounded in linguistics. The question of how to define what style actually is does not, nor will it ever, have a simple answer. However, scholars whose work falls (in the strictest or loosest of senses) within the remit of stylistics concur as to how best to proceed when trying to account for it. For Simpson (2014: 4), stylistics' approach to style is primarily informed by the three 'Rs': Rigour, Retrievability and Replicability. Stockwell and Whiteley (2014: 1) emphasise that 'stylistics is the proper study of literature', meaning that it is 'delineated by rules and principles, and by reasonable, open and honest argument'. For Burke, stylistics 'is a kind of linguistic-forensic, literary discourse criticism' (Burke, 2014: 3). These three statements illustrate the defining methodological essence of the discipline: for as long as style is thoroughly, comprehensively and rigorously researched, stylisticians will openly and unashamedly make use of whichever analytical framework or theoretical tenets that can best account for it.The open embrace by stylistics of a variety of influences explicates its intrinsically interdisciplinary nature which, in turn, gives rise to fruitful and diverse research. The year 2014 has certainly not disappointed in that respect because it has witnessed the publication of diverse work from research on new text-types or genres (e.g. literary gaming) to research informed by corpus and multimodal approaches. As has been customary in previous Year's Work articles, the following pages have been divided into sections, each grouping together publications connected by similar interests, whether these are insights from cognate disciplines or particular analytical frameworks. Having said that, this division has a primarily explanatory function and should not be taken to indicate some hermetic compartmentalisation; in fact, as I go on to discuss, cross-fertilisation between the various research areas has been both bountiful and productive. General issues of styleThree key 2014 publications have already been referred to: Simpson's second edition of Stylistics (2014), Stockwell and Whiteley's The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics 596395L AL0010.1177/0963947015596395Language and LiteratureMontoro research-article2015 Review Article Language and Literature 24(4) (2014) and Burke's The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics (2014). The danger of reviewing Handbooks of the calibre of Stockwell and Whiteley's (2014) and Burke's ( 2014) is that, inevitably, the review is limited by space constraints. What follows is a humble attempt at describing these two collections which represent major contributions to the field as they significantly develop stylistics tenets by expanding on existing ideas (even in supposedly classic topics), by bringing in original and detailed text analyses or, indeed, by a...

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Feminist stylistics

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#Ledatoo: The morality of Leda and the Swan in teaching stylistics

#Ledatoo: The morality of Leda and the Swan in teaching stylistics

Stylistics, Literary Criticism, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

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