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101: Stylistics: The Science of Literary Language
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101: Stylistics: The Science of Literary Language
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How does language create literary beauty, emotional force, and ideological meaning? In this episode of Literary Rides, we explore stylistics — the interdisciplinary field that studies literature through the tools of linguistics. Moving from Russian Formalism and Viktor Shklovsky’s theory of defamiliarization to Halliday’s functional linguistics and contemporary cognitive stylistics, this episode examines how literary language shapes perception itself.
The discussion explores foregrounding, transitivity, narrative voice, feminist stylistics, and critical stylistics, demonstrating how grammar and linguistic structure reveal hidden systems of ideology, gender, and power. Through a case study of The Awakening, the episode shows how stylistic analysis transforms close reading into a rigorous interpretive practice.
Designed for UGC NET English students, literature scholars, researchers, and serious readers, this episode offers both conceptual clarity and practical analytical insight into one of the most important intersections between linguistics and literary criticism.