Literary theory has embraced many topics, including the nature of an author's intentions, the character and measurement of the responses of a reader and the specific textuality of a literary text. Literature, language and education: some background The last twenty years have seen significant advances in linguistics, education and literary and cultural theory, a development that has provided a strong basis for exploring texts using a diverse range of methodologies (see Hall, 2005 for a comprehensive survey). The chapter begins with some theoretical background to issues of curriculum design and development and then illustrates the different pedagogic possibilities that different methodologies for stylistic analysis entail. Necessarily, too, the introduction discusses stylistics itself as a methodology. This makes the analysis transparent to others and enables readers to retrieve how analysts have reached their interpretive decisions. Methodology is very important in any form of text analysis and analysts themselves also have a responsibility to say what they are doing and how they are doing it. This chapter explores a selected range of methodologies used in stylistic analysis with a particular focus on applications to stylistics in the classroom.
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