Routledge
540 pages
Look Inside The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience and cover core issues that include:
Each of the thirty-two chapters provides: an introduction to the subject; an overview of the history of the topic; an analysis of the main current and critical issues; a section with recommendations for practice, and a discussion of possible future trajectory of the subject.
This handbook includes chapters written by some of the leading stylistics scholars in the world today, including Jean Boase-Beier, Joe Bray, Michael Burke, Beatrix Busse, Ronald Carter, Billy Clark, Barbara Dancygier, Catherine Emmott, Charles Forceville, Margaret Freeman, Christiana Gregoriou, Geoff Hall, Patrick Colm Hogan, Lesley Jeffries, Marina Lambrou, Michaela Mahlberg, Rocio Montoro, Nina Nørgaard, Dan Shen, Michael Toolan and Sonia Zyngier.
The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates and undergraduate students working in this area.
"The updating of knowledge is paramount to every discipline and The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics is a book of this kind. Its content indicates that stylistics is a continuous and flourishing area of academic study."- Shisheng Liu, President of the China Society of Stylistics
"Because of its wide and in-depth presentation, I feel sure that this handbook will be warmly welcomed by both students and teachers working in the flourishing field of stylistics." - Peter Verdonk, Emeritus Professor of Stylistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"This is an indispensable beginner’s guide to stylistics, packed full of practical advice and demonstrating the breadth of the discipline in its coverage of everything from the origin of stylistics in classical rhetoric to current advances in cognitive neuroscience." - Dan McIntyre, University of Huddersfield, UK
"The volume would also come in handy for more advanced students working on student projects in stylistics, discourse analysis, or literary criticism, and such readers would be likely to find inspiration for theoretical and methodological frameworks for their projects. With this in mind, it is recommended that university libraries acquire a least one copy of this volume." - Kim Ebensgaard Jensen, The LINGUIST List
"…The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics is an important, interesting and very useful volume. Its readability, comprehensiveness and practical orientation make it eminently usable. I would strongly recommend any library to acquire a copy as soon as possible." - Simone Bacchini, Reference Specialist, The British Library, London, UK, in Reference Reviews
Introduction
Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience
Michael Burke
PART 1
Historical perspectives in stylistics
1. Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics
Michael Burke
2. Formalist stylistics
Michael Burke and Kristy Evers
3. Functionalist stylistics
Patricia Canning
4.Reader response criticism and stylistics
Jennifer Riddle Harding
PART II
Core issues in stylistics
5. The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics
Christiana Gregoriou
6. (New) historical stylistics
Beatrix Busse
7.Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory
Derek Bousfield
8.Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle
Marina Lambrou
9.Stylistics and relevance theory
Billy Clark
10.Stylistics, point of view and modality
Clara Neary
11.Stylistics and narratology
Dan Shen
12.Metaphor and stylistics
Szilvia Csábi
13.Speech and thought presentation in stylistics
Joe Bray
PART III
Contemporary topics in stylistics
14. Pedagogical stylistics
Geoff Hall
15.Stylistics, drama and performance
Andrea Macrae
16.Schema theory in stylistics
Catherine Emmott, Marc Alexander, and Agnes Marszalek
17.Stylistics and text world theory
Ernestine Lahey
18.Stylistics and blending
Barbara Dancygier
19.Cognitive poetics
Margaret H. Freeman
20.Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics
Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier
21.Feminist stylistics
Rocío Montoro
22.Literary pragmatics and stylistics
Chantelle Warner
23.Corpus stylistics
Michaela Mahlberg
24.Stylistics and translation
Jean Boase-Beier
25.Critical stylistics
Lesley Jeffries
PART IV
Emerging and future trends in stylistics
26. Creative writing and stylistics
Jeremy Scott
27. Stylistics and real readers
David Peplow and Ronald Carter
28.Stylistics and film
Michael Toolan
29.Multimodality and stylistics
Nina Nørgaard
30.Stylistics and comics
Charles Forceville, Elisabeth El Refaie, and Gert Meesters
31.Stylistics and hypertext fiction
Paola Trimarco
32.Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience
Patrick Colm Hogan
Index
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