WebLinks

The internet has a vast range of very useful resources in Stylistics. For critical and analytical material, search for the names of prominent stylisticians. Some of them have their own resource pages, with their own articles which you can read online. Some of these are held directly on their websites, others are linked to the main scholarly journals – many of which are also available online. You can usually be sure of the credibility of writers who have published widely and who are attached to university departments. In particular, you can track further work by the authors in the section D readings.

There are a number of key journals in stylistics, most notably Style, The Journal of Literary Semantics and Language and Literature. The last of these can be explored at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=105705
where a sample issue of the journal can be downloaded for free.

The main academic association for stylistics is The Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). PALA holds regular conferences and meetings around the world, and publishes, amongst other things a regular newsletter. Details of how to join PALA, which by the way offers very good rates for students, can be found at
http://www.pala.ac.uk/

Finally, my own website is at Queen’s University Belfast:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/staff/simpson/index.htm

You can email me from there.