THE HARMONY OF LANGUAGE AND STYLE: A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF DOROTHY L.SAYERS NOVEL WHOSE BODY
Keywords:
stylistic analysis, language tools, ironic style, Wimsey, detective genre, dialogue, parody.Abstract
This article analyzes the stylistic features of the novel “Whose Body” –the debut detective novel of Dorothy L. Sayers. The differential features of the characters’ speech, irony, lexical contrasts and the artistic effect created through the language and stylistic means are explored in the work. In the process of analysis examples from the work are cited to illuminate the author’s literary and aesthetic approach.
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