Contemporary stylistics : language, cognition, interpretation / Alison Gibbons and Sara Whiteley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibbons, Alison, author.

Whiteley, Sara (Professor), author.

Series:

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.

Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Style.

English language.

Language and languages--Style.

Language and languages.

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 378 pages).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become ‘lost in a book’ or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, Contemporary Stylistics provides readers with the tools to begin answering these questions. In doing so, it introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts. Including innovative activities for students and with case studies of work by writers like Dylan Thomas, EL James and Kazuo Ishiguro, this is a detailed analysis of contemporary stylistics that offers both historical contextualization of the discipline and points towards its possible future direction.Key Features:Introduces the key terms for each contemporary stylistic frameworkOutlines the foundations of the discipline and addresses cutting-edge developments such as reader response research, corpus methods, multimodality and reader emotion Contains practical analyses, innovative exercises for students, and further reading suggestions in each chapterAddresses the recent attention to multimodal and digital literature and research into empiricism and emotionEach topic is explored through original analyses of a wide range of texts, including poetry, prose, dialogue, song lyrics, political discourse, and linguistic transcriptsThere are stylistic and cognitive poetic analyses through the book. The key case studies include:The Canal – Lee Rourke (2010)‘Zang Tumb Tumb’ by Marinetti (1914)‘River in Spate’ by Louis MacNeiceUnder Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (1954)‘Space Sonnet & Polyfilla’ by Edwin Morgan (1977)‘In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden’ by Matthea Harvey (2000)House of CardsWhat is the What by Dave Eggers (2006)Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke (2002)Fresh MeatFifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James (2012)‘Received Pronunciation’ by Sally Goldsmith (2012)‘The house is not the same since you left’ by Henry Normal (1993)The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee (2014)My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Stroud (2016)How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid (2013)The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)The One RonnieThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (2015)‘I Am The Song’ by Charles Causley‘Hypothetical’ by Maria Taylor‘This is the Poem in which I Have Not Left You’ by Julia Copus (2012)13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro (2011)Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (2015)Karen by Blast Theory (2015)‘Blood Story’ by Melvin Burgess

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Permission acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Part I Introducing contemporary stylistics

1 Contemporary stylistics

Part II Literature as language

2 Foregrounding

3 Phonemes to sound patterning

4 Morphemes to words

5 Phrase to sentence

6 Register, lexical semantics, and cohesion

Part III Literature as discourse

7 Dialogue and spoken discourse

8 Speech, thought, and narration

9 Modality and point of view

10 Transitivity and ideology

11 Varieties and invented languages

Part IV Text as cognition

12 Figure and ground

13 Deixis and deictic shift

14 Schemas, scripts, and prototypes

15 Cognitive grammar and construal

Part V Reading as mental spaces

16 Conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration

17 Text-worlds

18 Negation and lacuna

Part VI Reading as experience

19 Analysing the multimodal text

20 Understanding emotions

Part VII Reading as data

21 Corpus stylistics

22 Investigating readers

Part VIII Conclusion

23 Future stylistics

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780748682805

0748682805

9780748682782

0748682783

OCLC:

1306538415