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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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-HÃnnninen and Tapio SeppÃnnen -- 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.

"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.

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