Language and style : in honour of Mick Short / edited by Dan McIntyre and Beatrix Busse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McIntyre, Dan, 1975-

Busse, Beatrix.

Short, Mick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Style.

English language.

English language--Discourse analysis.

Literary style.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

"Inspired by exploring the language of poems, plays and prose, Mick Short's classic introduction to stylistics, language and style represents the state-of-the-art in literary stylistics and encompasses the full breadth of current research in the discipline. Written by leading scholars in the field, chapters cover a variety of methodological and analytical approaches, from traditional qualitative analysis to more recent developments in cognitive and corpus stylistics. Addressing the three, key literary genres of poetry, drama and narrative, Language and style is divided into carefully balanced sections. Based on original research, each chapter demonstrates a particular analytic technique and explains how this might be applied to a text from one of the literary genres. Framed by helpful introductory material covering the foundational principles of stylistics, the chapters act as practical exemplars of how to carry out stylistic analysis. Comprehensive and engaging, this invaluable resource is essential reading for anyone interested in stylistics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Language, literature and stylistics / Beatrix Buss and Dan McIntyre

Analysing literature through language : two Shakespearean speeches / Geoffrey Leech

Recent trends in new historical stylistics / Beatrix Busse

Methodologies for stylistic analysis : practices and pedagogies / Ronald Carter

The stylistics of poetry : Walter de la Mare's 'The listeners' / Katie Wales

A cognitive stylistic reading of rhetorical patterns in Ted Hughes's 'Hawk roosting' : a possible role for stylistics in literary critical controversy / Peter Verdonk

'The unprofessionals' : syntactic iconicity and reader interpretation in contemporary poems / Lesley Jeffries

Text worlds in poetry / Elena Semino

'Public-house confidence' : the indispensability of sound patters / Tom Barney

The stylistics of drama : universal elements / Marga Munkelt

Dialogue and characterization in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir dogs : a corpus stylistic analysis / Dan McIntyre

'See better, Lear'? See Lear better! A corpus-based pragma-stylistic investigation of Shakespeare's King Lear / Dawn Archer and Derek Bousfiled

Activity types, incongruity and humour in dramatic discouse / Dan McIntyre and Jonathan Culpeper

The stylistics of narrative fiction / Dan Shen

Authorial style / David L. Hoover

2D and 3D visualization of stance in popular fiction / Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen and Tapio Seppänen

Point of view / Paul Simpson

The intrinsic importance of sentence type and clause type to narrative effect : or, how Alice Munro's 'Circle of prayer' gets started / Michael Toolan

Detective fiction, plot construction, and reader manipulation : rhetorical control and cognitive misdirection in Agatha Christie's Sparkling cyanide / Catherine Emmott and Marc Alexander

Narrative and metaphor / Monika Fludernik

Wmatrix, key concepts and the narrators in Julian Barnes's Talking it over / Brian Walker

Writing presentation, the epistolary novel and free indirect thought / Joe Bray

'Appeased by the certitude' : the quiet disintegration of the paranoid mind in The mustache / Joanna Gavins

The eleventh checksheet of the apocalypse / Peter Stockwell

Multimodality : extending the stylistic tool-kit / Nina Nørgaard

Corpus approaches to prose fiction : civility and body language in Pride and prejudice / Michaela Mahlberg and Catherine Smith

Non-literary language : a stylistic investigation of the cover pages of the British satirical magazine Private eye / Beatrix Busse

Stylistics, linguistics and literature : a short afterword / Geoff Hall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230231573

0230231578

9780230231566

023023156X

OCLC:

609541092