Contemporary stylistics / edited by Marina Lambrou and Peter Stockwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lambrou, Marina.

Stockwell, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Style.

English language.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literary style.

Physical Description:

xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2007]

Summary:

Contemporary Stylistics presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the integrated study of language and literature.

Written by internationally renowned researchers in stylistics, this volume of 20 chapters provides a showcase for the range of approaches and practices which form modern stylistics: from cognitive poetics to corpus linguistics, from explorations of mindstyle and spoken discourse in narrative to the workings of viewpoint in lyric poetry, from word-meanings to the meanings and emotions of literary worlds, and more.

Each chapter is introduced and set in context by a key figure in stylistics. The book represents the best of current stylistics practice, including the traditions, roots and rigour of the discipline.

This one-volume reference will be invaluable to students and researchers in stylistics.

Contents:

Introduction: The State of Contemporary Stylistics / Marina Lambrou, Peter Stockwell 1

Part A Stylistics of Prose 5

Chapter 1 Woolf's Experiments with Consciousness in Fiction / Violeta Sotirova, Introduced by Lesley Jeffries 7

Chapter 2 A Corpus Stylistic Perspective on Dickens' Great Expectations / Michaela Mahlberg, Introduced by Michael McCarthy 19

Chapter 3 The Stylistics of True Crime: Mapping the Minds of Serial Killers / Christiana Gregoriou, Introduced by Urszula Clark 32

Chapter 4 'Do you want to hear about it?' Exploring Possible Worlds in Michael Joyce's Hyperfiction, afternoon, a story / Alice Bell, Introduced by Brian McHale 43

Chapter 5 The Effects of Free Indirect Discourse: Empathy Revisited / Joe Bray, Introduced by Geoff Hall 56

Chapter 6 The Stylistics of Cappuccino Fiction: A Socio-cognitive Perspective / Rocio Montoro, Introduced by Imelda Whelehan 68

Chapter 7 Attribution Theory: Action and Emotion in Dickens and Pynchon / Alan Palmer, Introduced by Elena Semino 81

Chapter 8 Bridget Jones's Diary and Feminist Narratology / Ruth Page, Introduced by Sara Mills 93

Chapter 9 Schema Poetics and Crossover Fiction / Clare Walsh, Introduced by John McRae 106

Chapter 10 Deixis, Cognition and the Construction of Viewpoint / Dan McIntyre, Introduced by Paul Simpson 118

Part B Stylistics of Poetry 131

Chapter 11 'And everyone and I stopped breathing': Familiarity and Ambiguity in the Text World of 'The day lady died' / Joanna Gavins, Introduced by Catherine Emmott 133

Chapter 12 'Progress is a comfortable disease': Cognition in a Stylistic Analysis of e.e. cummings / Michael Burke, Introduced by Peter Stockwell 144

Chapter 13 Megametaphorical Mappings and the Landscapes of Canadian Poetry / Ernestine Lahey, Introduced by Peter Verdonk 156

Chapter 14 Perception and the Lyric: The Emerging Mind of the Poem / Sharon Lattig, Introduced by Alan Durant 168

Chapter 15 Stylistics and Language Teaching: Deviant Collocation in Literature as a Tool for Vocabulary Expansion / Dany Badran, Introduced by Ron Carter 180

Part C Stylistics of Dialogue and Drama 193

Chapter 16 Oral Accounts of Personal Experiences: When is a Narrative a Recount? / Marina Lambrou, Introduced by David Herman 195

Chapter 17 'Never a truer word said in jest': A Pragmastylistic Analysis of Impoliteness as Banter in Henry IV, Part I / Derek Bousfield, Introduced by Billy Clark 209

Chapter 18 The Cognitive Rhetoric of Arthur Miller's The Crucible / Craig Hamilton, Introduced by Peter Crisp 221

Chapter 19 The Stylistics of Drama: The Reign of King Edward III / Beatrix Busse, Introduced by Monika Fludernik 232

Chapter 20 Computer-assisted Literary Stylistics: The State of the Field / Dawn Archer, Introduced by Jonathan Culpeper 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-284) and index.

ISBN:

9780826493859

0826493858

OCLC:

138340923