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The IUP Journal of English Studies :
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Stylistics is a scientific approach to language matters and style in texts, both literary and
nonliterary. Traditional stylistics is nonlinguistic, subjective, and impressionistic. A vast
excursion into modern stylistics serves as a contributory factor to literary criticism.
Biography, history, religion, anthropology, etc. are already in a literary critic’s bag. Stylistics
can also be included in the list.
Bateson (1972) argues about a dichotomy between scholarship and criticism, and
concludes that a critic must be a good scholar and a good scholar a good critic, whereas
modern stylisticians feel that a good critic should be a good linguist. Modern stylistics
generally tries to bring out the unique literariness of a text, embodying both formal features
and linguistic features.
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