Mysteries of Style

It often is a great students' desire to find a book that would serve as a friendly and reliable companion on their way through a field they have just entered and that might seem impenetrableconfusing for the inexperienced. Ömer Sekerci's and Betüre Memmedova's new contribution to literary stylistics lends them such a helping hand; offering a comprehensive account of literary stylistic devices complemented with a great variety of exercises and sample text analyses, the book presents a well–thought–over teaching material which will prove useful both in university seminars and during students' self–study.

It is the numerous set of examples and model analyses, drawing upon a wide range of titles from British as well as American literature and a wide range of authors from Shakespeare to Woolf, that makes the book exceptional, as it is something that is usually hard to find and that students need most. Last but not least, the readers will certainly appreciate the way the book is organised, providing systematic end–of–chapter summaries in ts, and the student–friendly, simple but precise language, which makes the text encouragingly readable for a large student community.

Renáta Tomášková, Ph.D., Department of English and American Studies, Philosophical Faculty, Ostrava University in Ostrava, Czech Republic