What, why and how?

Prof. Abdellah Elhaloui

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 What?
The Child In Him
I loved the child in him
so innocent and sweet
The mischief in in
Stylistics is a method of textual interpretation hiswhich
eyes
the blush upon his cheek
primacy of place is assigned to language.
The tender way he spoke
1. Conversation that showed me that he cared
between 2 friends The touch of his warm hand
2. A poem that gently touched my hair
3. A joke The smiles that we shared
4. A public speech that filled my life with glee
For when I was with him
I found the child in me
Jean Gabor
Stylistics is a method of textual interpretation in which
primacy of place is assigned to language.
 Why?

We do stylistics to explore language, and, more specifically, the

creativity in language use.

“Why do we have noses that run and feet that smell?”

Author Unknown
“English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the
driveway and drive our car on the parkway.”
Author Unknown
“The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to
shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call
him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
G. K. Chesterton
How?

1. stylistic analysis should be rigorous.

2. stylistic analysis should be retrievable.
3. stylistic analysis should be replicable.
 They sailed well and the old man soaked his hands in the salt water
and tried to keep his head clear. There were high cumulus clouds and
enough cirrus above them so that the old man knew the breeze
would last all night. The old man looked at the fish constantly to make
sure it was true. It was an hour before the first shark hit him. 
 The shark was not an accident. He had come up from deep down in
the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the
mile deep sea He had come up so fast and absolutely without caution
that he broke the surface of the blue water and was in the sun. Then
he fell back into the sea and picked up the scent and started
swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken. 

The young man, whose name was Robert Jordan, was extremely
hungry and he was worried. He was often hungry but he was not
usually worried because he did not give any importance to what
happened to himself and he knew from experience how simple it
was to move behind the enemy lines in all this country
 They sailed well and the old man soaked his hands in the salt water
and tried to keep his head clear. There were high cumulus clouds and
enough cirrus above them so that the old man knew the breeze
would last all night. The old man looked at the fish constantly to make
sure it was true. It was an hour before the first shark hit him. 
 The shark was not an accident. He had come up from deep down in
the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the
mile deep sea He had come up so fast and absolutely without caution
that he broke the surface of the blue water and was in the sun. Then
he fell back into the sea and picked up the scent and started
swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken. 

The young man, whose name was Robert Jordan, was extremely
hungry and he was worried. He was often hungry but he was not
usually worried because he did not give any importance to what
happened to himself and he knew from experience how simple it
was to move behind the enemy lines in all this country
 How? 1. Sentence types
2. Synthetic compounds
3. Scarcity of complex sentences

We can report it
1. stylistic analysis should be rigorous.
2. stylistic analysis should be retrievable.
3. stylistic analysis should be replicable.
We can check if
it works in
other texts.
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army
stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green,
the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

• One evening of late summer, before the present century had reached its
thirtieth year, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were
approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors on foot. They were plainly but
not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes
and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness
to their appearance just now.

Then there was the bad weather. It would come in one day when the fall was over.
We would have to shut the windows in the night against the rain and the cold wind
would strip the leaves from the trees in the Place Contrescarpe. The leaves lay
sodden in the rain and the wind drove the rain against the big green autobus at the
terminal and the Café des Amateurs was crowded and the windows misted over
from the heat and the smoke inside
1. Swerving east, from rich industrial shadows
2. And traffic all night north; swerving through fields
3. Too thin and thistled to be called meadows,
4. And now and then a harsh-named halt, that shields
5. Workmen at dawn; swerving to solitude Philip Larkin
6. Of skies and scarecrows, haystacks, hares and pheasants,
7. And the widening river's slow presence,
8. The piled gold clouds, the shining gull-marked mud,
9. Gathers to the surprise of a large town:
10. Here domes and statues, spires and cranes cluster
11. Beside grain-scattered streets, barge-crowded water,
12. And residents from raw estates, brought down
13. The dead straight miles by stealing flat-faced trolleys,
14. Push through plate-glass swing doors to their desires -
15. Cheap suits, red kitchen-ware, sharp shoes, iced lollies,
16. Electric mixers, toasters, washers, driers -
17. A cut-price crowd, urban yet simple, dwelling
18. Where only salesmen and relations come
19. Within a terminate and fishy-smelling
20. Pastoral of ships up streets, the slave museum,
21. Tattoo-shops, consulates, grim head-scarfed wives;
22. And out beyond its mortgaged half-built edges
23. Fast-shadowed wheat fields, running high as hedges,
24. Isolate villages, where removed lives
25. Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
26. Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
27. Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken,
28. Luminously-peopled air ascends;
29. And past the poppies bluish neutral distance
30. Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach
31. Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence:
32. Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.