Investigating Dickens' Style

Download or read book Investigating Dickens' Style written by M. Hori and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, corpus-driven approach to the study of language and style of literary texts makes use of the Dickens' 4.6 million-word corpus for a detailed examination of patterns of lexical collocations. It offers new insights into Dickens' linguistic innovation, together with a nuanced understanding of his use of language to achieve stylistic ends. At the centre of the study is a close analysis of the two narratives in Bleak House , read as a focal point for consideration of Dickens' stylistic development through his whole writing life.