Lecture Stylistics as a science. Problems of stylistic research. Plan

Figures of contrast
Oxymoron (a logical collision of seemingly incompatible words).
E.g. His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept Mm falsely true. (Tennyson)
O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing! of nothing first create.
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! (Shakespeare)
"I am preferably a man of mildness, but now and then, I find myself in the middle of extremities." (O’ Henry)
"I also assure her that I'm an Angry Young Man. A black humorist. A white Negro. Anything." (M. Richler)
Paradox (a seemingly absurd thought in fact well-founded statement:
It was too implausible not to be fact… (T. Capote)
Antithesis (anti-statement, active confrontation of notions used to show the contradictory nature of the subject described):
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the era of, incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of Darkness... Hope... Despair. (Dickens)
His fees were high, his lessons were light. (O’Henry)


Литература:

1. 
   Знаменская Т.А. Стилистика английского языка. Основы курса. М., 2004.
   
2. 
   Мороховский А.Н. Cтилистика английского языка. Киев, 1989.
   
3. 
   Galperin I.R. Stylistics. M., 1977.
   
4. 
   Leech G.A. A Linguistic Guide to Poetry. L., 1973.
   
5. 
   Skrebnev Y.M. Fundamentals of English. М., 1994.
   

Lecture 4.
Decoding Stylistics and its Fundementals.
1. Stylistics of the author and of the reader. The notions of encoding and decoding.
2. Essential concepts of decoding stylistic analysis and types of foregrounding.