What is "stylistic"

Usage examples of "stylistic".

Dostoyevsky uses in these passages, may be considered as stylistic images of the threshold within the sentence, the space of the line.

The stylistic device of theme and variation conjoins these opposing aspects of repetition and underscores the tension between them.

Tibetan classification of metal statuary which divides it by origin into two main groups and at the same time appears to take note of stylistic differences.

The author is a splendid literary mimic, capturing the stylistic quirks of her various subjects.

There are good reasons, then, for regarding stylistics as different, but none, in my view, for regarding it as untheoretical.

Likewise, not all stylistics in the 1960s made uncompromisingly exclusive claims for the discipline, so the more liberal attitude said to be distinctive of the new stylistics is not something which appears only in the 1980s.

It should be added that doubtless the old hard line attitudes against stylistics still exist too, but in recent years structuralism and post-structuralism, rather than stylistics, have usually been seen as the major threat to traditional values in criticism, with the consequence that most liberal humanist polemical writing has been directed at these targets.

All the same, the main point is clear: stylistics tries to establish things which are generally true about the way literature works.

Grossman, they were interested in the poetics of Dostoyevsky and based their work on the written novel, using linguistics and stylistics to support their conclusions.

I updated cultural and political references, polished away a few of the more egregious stylistic inadequacies, and trimmed excess wordage here and there.

The art magazine told me that when abstract expressionism reflected utter disenchantment with the dream it still reverted to rhetorical simplifications even in its impiety, and that it is not a unified stylistic entity because of its advocacy of alien ideas on the basis of a homiletic approach to experience.

During this Khalifate were also produced the earliest germs of stylistics, epistolography and mysticism, all of which were more fully developed under the Abbasides.

As I sat there listening to songs by the Stylistics and the Chi-Lites, I could see now and again blokes that I recognized from the battalion walking past, looking at me through the window.

Academics have written at great length and Byzantine complexity about science fiction writers with a far less substantial body of work and far less stylistic interest than Jack Vance.

Stranger in a Strange Land breaks apart in the middle, Dune has stylistic lapses, and even A Canticle for Leibowiti, lacks centricity, to cite only three examples.