- 392 pages
- English
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About this book
Contemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page ā Contemporary Stylistics
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Permission acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Introducing contemporary stylistics
- 1 Contemporary stylistics
- Part II Literature as language
- 2 Foregrounding
- 3 Phonemes to sound patterning
- 4 Morphemes to words
- 5 Phrase to sentence
- 6 Register, lexical semantics, and cohesion
- Part III Literature as discourse
- 7 Dialogue and spoken discourse
- 8 Speech, thought, andĀ narration
- 9 Modality and point of view
- 10 Transitivity and ideology
- 11 Varieties and invented languages
- Part IV Text as cognition
- 12 Figure and ground
- 13 Deixis and deictic shift
- 14 Schemas, scripts, andĀ prototypes
- 15 Cognitive grammar andĀ construal
- Part V Reading as mental spaces
- 16 Conceptual metaphor and conceptual integration
- 17 Text-worlds
- 18 Negation and lacuna
- Part VI Reading as experience
- 19 Analysing the multimodal text
- 20 Understanding emotions
- Part VII Reading as data
- 21 Corpus stylistics
- 22 Investigating readers
- Part VIII Conclusion
- 23 Future stylistics
- References
- Index