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.