Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Stylistics is inevitably an overlapping and borderline discipline, using not only its own terminology and methods but also concepts from other disciplines. The links of stylistics to poetics or rhetoric are ambiguously evaluated among theorists. Whether linguistically or literary-scientifically orien-ted, with its interest in the compositional principles and expressive means of a work (singular style) as well as in the expressive constants of its productor (individual style), stylistics stands at the foundation of the philological approach to literary texts. Attention to the language and style of literary works varies among different schools of literary studies and individual scholars. This paper reviews the competencies as well as the (current) possibilities and limits of stylistics within the field of literary science, recapitulating the central concepts of stylistics, and their role in the description, analysis and interpretation of specific texts.
Source: Bohemica litteraria
DOI: 10.5817/bl2025-1-6
Author: Marek Lollok
Institution: Masaryk University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412551985