Pleating Stylistic Functions, Or When Literature and Linguistics Collide
Pleating Stylistic Functions, Or When Literature and Linguistics Collide

Summary/Abstract: Many philological study programmes fall under two categories thatshould intertwine, but which often end up being worlds apart from eachother: language and literature. It’s in the name; and yet, sometimes,coordination fails, and polarisation makes room for barely guiseddisdain for the other. Fortunately, they reunite when stylistics ‘takes thefloor’: when literature cannot be construed in the absence of a soundlinguistic analysis of its features, and when linguistics cannot find itsmost complex application without resorting to the most elaborateexpressions of the written language, i.e., to fiction. Due to its linguisticand ideational complexity, the Modernist novel is clearly in desperateneed of such togetherness when it comes to looking into its intricacies,and Daniela Șorcaru’s study, Ways of Pleating Stylistics Functions (2021),proves successful in this compulsory endeavour

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