This work traces the historical roots of the separation of style from rhetoric and its conflation with grammatical correctness, which has obscured understanding of the role of style in meaning making. The book begins with a chapter giving various definitions of aspects of style, such as grammar, voice, and eloquence. Two subsequent chapters provide a historical overview of style from ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages and 19th-century America. This is followed by a chapter on contemporary views of styles, stressing the ideas of Bakhtin. Later chapters explore the relationship between style and contemporary scholarship in language difference, translingualism, feminism, genre studies, writing across the curriculum, new media, and visual rhetorics. The last two chapters offer detailed coverage of research methodologies related to style as well as pedagogical implications. A glossary and annotated bibliography are included. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
