This course generally explores the interface between language and literature. The course guides students to combine the descriptive procedures of linguistics and the interpretative goals of literary criticism in analyzing literary texts. It is designed to focus students’ attention on the linguistic organization of selected literary texts and more importantly the literary significance of the linguistic organization of the texts. Areas to be covered include concepts and methods of stylistics, the historical developments in stylistics, and the relationship between literary discourse and non-literary discourse. Students will essentially be engaged in discussing characterization, theme, and style in prose, drama and poetry through linguistic analysis at various levels, including lexico-grammar, graphology, phonetics and phonology, semantics, and pragmatics.