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Stylistics is a systematic way of exploring texts. It looks at the language of texts and tries to explain how that language creates meaning, style and effect. In this seminar we will use selected chapters from an online course of Lancaster University (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/stylistics/index.htm). The authors describe their course aims as follows: -(1) To teach you a set of analytical TOOLS from the -stylisticians toolkit- that you can use to examine texts (for example, their words, sounds, structures, or interactive aspects). (2) To encourage you to use those tools on additional texts, both during and after the sessions, so that you learn by doing.” Naturally we will focus on the linguistic aspects of stylistics analyses, e.g. sentence complexity, lexical choice etc. Recommended reading: Leech, Geoffrey N. (1969) A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, London: Longman, chapters 1 and 2. Short, Mick (1993) To analyse a poem stylistically: -To Paint a Water Lily- by Ted Hughes, in Peter Verdonk (ed.) (1993) Twentieth-century Poetry: From Text To Context, London: Routledge chapter 1, pp. 5-20. Simpson, Paul (1997) Language Through Literature, London: Routledge chapter 2, pp. 23-59. Verdonk, Peter (1993) Poetry and public life: a contextualised reading of Seamus Heaneys -Punishment-, in Peter Verdonk (ed.) (1993) Twentieth-century Poetry: From Text To Context, London: Routledge chapter 9, pp. 112-33. Widdowson, Henry (1983) The Conditional Presence of Mr Bleaney in Ronald Carter (ed.) Language and Literature, London: Allen & Unwin chapter 1, pp. 18-26. Zu diesem Seminar wird ein elektronischer Semesterapparat mit einem Semesterplan, einer Publikationsliste, online abrufbaren Aufsätzen, Materialien etc. erstellt. Anglistik Universität Duisburg-Essen SS 2009 Mag, Magisterstudiengang Professor Hünig Wolfgang