In this video, Joe and Adam discuss ‘stylistics’, an approach to reading literature which pays detailed attention to the style in which it is written, and the language it uses.
This approach complements the other ways of reading that you have encountered so far on this course, such as close reading and awareness of context.
They discuss the benefits of this perspective for texts and introduce one particular stylistic technique for which Jane Austen is particularly well known, free indirect discourse.
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