Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1: Foundations 'Taking a Poem to Pieces' John Sinclair. 'Stylistics' David Lodge. ‘Linguistic Function and Literary Style: An Inquiry into the Language of William Golding’s The Inheritors’ Michael Haliday. ‘On the Deviance of Literary Discourse’ Henry Widdowson. ‘Applying Linguistics’ Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt. ‘Linguistic Criticism’ Roger Fowler. 'Metre' Geoffrey Leech. 'Discourse Analysis and Drama' Mick Short. Part 2: Developments ‘Poem, Reader, Response: Making Sense with ‘Skunk Hour’ Michael Toolan. ‘Style and Interpretation in Hemingway’s "Cat in the Rain"’ Ron Carter. ‘Changing the Guard at Elsinore’ Walter Nash. ‘But what is Literature?: Toward a Descriptive Definition of Literature’ Willie van Peer. ‘Deixis and the Poetic Persona’ Keith Green Bakhtin. Addressivity, and the Poetics of Objectivity’ Alison Tate. ‘Teach Yourself Rhetoric: An Analysis of Philip Larkin’s "Church Going"’ Katie Wales. 'World Enough and Time: Deictic Space and the Interpretation of Prose' Paul Werth. 'Making the Subtle Difference; Literature and Non-Literature in the Classroom' Guy Cook. Part 3: New Directions ‘Educating the Reader: Narrative Technique and Evaluation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland’ Jean Jacques Weber. 'Satirical Humour and Cultural Context: With a Note on the Curious Case of Father Todd Unctuous' Paul Simpson. (Sur)real Stylistics: From Text to Contextualizing’ Peter Stockwell. 'Feeling Moved by Metaphor' Ray Gibbs. 'Point of View in Drama: An Analysis of Brimstone and Treacle' Dan McIntyre. 'Conrad in the Computer: Examples of Quantitative Stylistic Methods' Michael Stubbs. '‘Split Selves" in Fiction and in Medical ‘Life Stories’' Catherine Emmott. 'Too Much Blague? The Text Worlds of Barthelme’s Snow White’' Joanna Gavins. 'A Cognitive Stylistic Approach to Mind Style in Narrative Fiction' Elena Semino. 'Connectives in Free Indirect Style: Continuity or Shift?' Violeta Sotirova. Part 4: Coda 'Stylistics: Retrospect and Prospect' Peter Stockwell and Ron Carter. Index