On The Convergency Of Textualist And Contextualist Stylistics: Theoreical Trend In Literature Teaching

These years, with the incorporation of related disciplines into stylistic studies, various new groups come into being, which brings stylistics into prosperity. However, due to the difference in research focus and analytical model, most of them hold the theoretical stance of their own strongly and repel the others.By applying Richard Bradford's classification of textualist and contextualist stylistics, this thesis makes a detailed discussion on the various theories covered within them and points out that to overcome their divorce by converging them can effectively promote a healthy development of stylistics. The thesis resorts to the methods of deduction and counterevidence to demonstrate the defects of textualist and contextualist stylistics both theoretically and practically. Then it puts forward an analytical model, which incorporates them. Finally, by applying this model to the analysis of Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, William Blake's London and George Owell's A Hanging, this analytical model is proved to be able to avoid many drawbacks common with the previous stylistic studies.Furthermore, the thesis also investigates the beneficial implications of this convergency for the theories and practices of literature pedagogy. It is hoped eagerly that all these attempts would be especially of some help and enlightenment for the pedagogy of foreign literature of our country.