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Style: what is it?
In this section, we will explore the notion of style in general terms.
We will try to answer the two questions:
In literary studies, style is most often associated with individual authors,
and, indeed, we will spend some time in this topic examining the notion
of authorial style in more detail. Two different novelists might, for
example, write a description of the same event in very different ways,
and the fact that writers have different styles means that it is possible
for other writers to parody them. A good example of this is the comic
novel by David Lodge called The British Museum is Falling Down.
Part of the fun of this novel is that he parodies the style of ten other
famous novelists (including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and C.P. Snow)
at various points in his novel. The reader has to play the "spot
the parody" game.
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