Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgements viii

List of Contributors x
Introduction Language, Literature and Stylitics 3(12)

Beatrix Busse

Dan McIntyre

PART I PRELIMINARIES

1 Analysing Literature through Language: Two Shakespearean Speeches 15(17)

Geoffrey Leech

2 Recent Trends in New Historical Stylistics 32(23)

Beatrix Busse

3 Methodologies for Stylistic Analysis: Practices and Pedagogies 55(16)

Ronald Carter

PART II THE STYLISTICS OF POETRY

4 The Stylistics of Poetry: Walter de la Mare's `The Listeners' 71(13)

Katie Wales

5 A Cognitive Stylistic Reading of Rhetorical Patterns in Ted Hughes's `Hawk Roosting': A Possible Role for Stylistics in a Literary Critical Controversy 84(11)

Peter Verdonk

6 `The Unprofessionals': Syntactic Iconicity and Reader Interpretation in Contemporary Poems 95(21)

Lesley Jeffries

7 Text Worlds in Poetry 116(17)

Elena Semino

8 `Public-House Confidence': The Indispensability of Sound Patterns 133(12)

Tom Barney

PART III THE STYLISTICS OF DRAMA

9 The Stylistics of Drama: Universal Elements 145(17)

Marga Munkelt

10 Dialogue and Characterization in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis 162(21)

Dan McIntyre

11 `See Better, Lear'? See Lear Better! A Corpus-Based Pragma-Stylistic Investigation of Shakespeare's King Lear 183(21)

Dawn Archer

Derek Bousfield

12 Activity Types, Incongruity and Humour in Dramatic Discourse 204(21)

Dan McIntyre

Jonathan Culpeper

PART IV THE STYLISTICS OF NARRATIVE FICTION

13 The Stylistics of Narrative Fiction 225(25)

Dan Shen

14 Authorial Style 250(22)

David L. Hoover

15 2D and 3D Visualization of Stance in Popular Fiction 272(21)

Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen

Tapio Seppanen

16 Point of View 293(18)

Paul Simpson

17 The Intrinsic Importance of Sentence Type and Clause Type to Narrative Effect: Or, How Alice Munro's `Circle of Prayer' Gets Started 311(17)

Michael Toolan

18 Detective Fiction, Plot Construction, and Reader Manipulation: Rhetorical Control and Cognitive Misdirection in Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide 328(19)

Catherine Emmott

Marc Alexander

19 Narrative and Metaphor 347(17)

Monika Fludernik

20 Wmatrix, Key Concepts and the Narrators in Julian Barnes's Talking It Over 364(24)

Brian Walker

21 Writing Presentation, the Epistolary Novel and Free Indirect Thought 388(14)

Joe Bray

22 `Appeased by the certitude': The Quiet Disintegration of the Paranoid Mind in The Mustache 402(17)

Joanna Gavins

23 The Eleventh Checksheet of the Apocalypse 419(14)

Peter Stockwell

24 Multimodality: Extending the Stylistic Tool-Kit 433(16)

Nina Nørgaard

25 Corpus Approaches to Prose Fiction: Civility and Body Language in Pride and Prejudice 449(19)

Michaela Mahlberg

Catherine Smith

26 Non-literary Language: A Stylistic Investigation of the Cover Pages of the British Satirical Magazine Private Eye 468(33)

Beatrix Busse

AFTERWORD

27 Stylistics, Linguistics and Literature: A Short Afterword 501(7)

Geoff Hall
References 508(29)
Index 537