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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.

Language and Style

Introduction; D.McIntyre & B.Busse.- PART I: PRELIMINARIES.- Analysing Literature Through Language; G.Leech.- Recent Trends in New Historical Stylistics; B.Busse.- Methodologies for Stylistic Analysis: Practices and Pedagogies; R.Carter.- PART II: THE STYLISTICS OF POETRY.- The Stylistics of Poetry: Walter de la Mare's 'The Listeners'; K.Wales.- Foregrounding; W.van Peer.- A Cognitive Stylistic Reading of Rhetorical Patterns in Ted Hughes's 'Hawk Roosting'; P.Verdonk.- 'The Unprofessionals': Syntactic Iconicity and Reader Interpretation in Contemporary Poems; L.Jeffries.- Text Worlds in Poetry; E.Semino.- Public House Confidence: The Indispensability of Sound Patterns; T.Barney.- PART III: THE STYLISTICS OF DRAMA.- The Stylistics of Drama: Universal Elements; M.Munkelt.- Dialogue and Characterisation in Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs': A Corpus Stylistic Analysis; D.McIntyre.- 'See Better, Lear?' See Lear Better! A Corpus-Based Pragma-Stylistic Investigation of Shakespeare's King Lear; D.Bousfield & D.Archer.- Activity Types, Incongruity and Humour in Dramatic Discourse; D.McIntyre & J.Culpepper.- PART IV: THE STYLISTICS OF NARRATIVE FICTION.- The Stylistics of Narrative Fiction; D.Shen.- Authorial Style; D.Hoover.- 2D and 3D Visualization of Stance in Popular Fiction; L.L.Opas-Hänninen & T.Seppänen.- Point of View; P.Simpson.- The Intrinsic Importance of Sentence-Type and Clause-Type to Narrative Effect: Or, How Alice Munro's 'Circle of Prayer' Gets Started; M.Toolan.- Detective Fiction, Plot Construction and Reader Manipulation: Rhetorical Control and Cognitive Misdirection in Agatha Christie's 'Sparkling Cyanide'; C.Emmott & M.Alexander.- Narration and Metaphor; M.Fludernik.- Wmatrix, Key-Concepts and the Narrators in Julian Barnes' 'Talking it Over'; B.Walker.- Writing Presentation, The Epistolary Novel and Free Indirect Thought; J.Bray.- 'Appeased By The Certitude': The Quiet Disintegration of the Paranoid Mind in 'The Mustache'; J.Gavins.- The Eleventh Checksheet of the Apocalypse; P.Stockwell.- Multimodality: Extending the Stylistic Toolkit; N.Norgaard.- Corpus Approaches to Narrative Fiction; M.Mahlberg.- Stylistics, Linguistics and Literature: A Short Afterword; G.Hall.- References.- Index.