ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ defined itself as the scientific and objective study of texts, using what was seen as textual data and employing its own terminology.
A
Formalism
B
Stylistics
C
Close Reading
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Textuality in stylistics refers to the complex elements that texts must possess to be deemed text. Textuality also refers to the quality of use of language characteristics of written work as opposed to spoken usage.

Detailed explanation-2: -stylistics, study of the devices in languages (such as rhetorical figures and syntactical patterns) that are considered to produce expressive or literary style. Style has been an object of study from ancient times. Aristotle, Cicero, Demetrius, and Quintilian treated style as the proper adornment of thought.

Detailed explanation-3: -Linguistics offers stylistic analysis of texts at phonological, syntactic, and semantic levels of linguistic description (Murtaza and Qasmi. 3). Stylistics employs its own meta-language and terminology to describe and analyze texts and their items and structures (ibid).

Detailed explanation-4: -Stylistics analysis involves the analysis of various styles used in language to derive the desired meaning or theme of given texts. It involves identifying the various ways in which authors of literary works or poets convey their message, i.e., through an indirect and hidden pattern.

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