Stylistics

Michael Burke

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040896082
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Stylistics is a multidisciplinary and stimulating field of scientific enquiry with an increasingly significant impact on society, especially in cognitive, civic and pedagogical domains. This new four volume collection will showcase the main developments and the major achievements in stylistics. Included will be the most important works that have been at the forefront of stylistic scholarship in the past forty years, and the debates and controversies that have taken place. They will also include key texts on methodology and on models of interpretation that have been developed and will show how stylistics has been both effected by linguistic, philosophical and psychological theories and how it, in turn, has influenced them.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 21 Stylistic Analysis and Relevance Theory
• 22 The Pragmatics of Detection: Paul Auster’s City of Glass
• 23 Who Controls the Narrative?: A stylistic comparison of different versions of Raymond Carver's “So Much Water So Close to Home”
• 24 How Stylisticians Draw on Narratology: Approaches, advantages and disadvantages
• 25 Collocational Analysis as a Stylistic Discovery Procedure: The case of Flannery O'Connor's eyes
• 26 The Source of “Dramatized Consciousness”: Richardson, Austen, and stylistic influence
• 27 Point of View
• 28 Mind Style As An Interdisciplinary Approach to Characterisation in Faulkner
• 29 Deixis and the Poetic Persona
• 30 The ‘Dual Voice’ of Free Indirect Discourse: A reading experiment
• 31 Point of View in Drama: A socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and Treacle
• 32 Unambiguous Free Indirect Discourse?: A comparison between ‘straightforward’ free indirect speech and thought presentation and cases ambiguous with narration
• 33 Who are the Performers of Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’?
• 34 Towards a Neo-Gricean Stylistics: Implicature in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night
• 35 Graphological Deviation, Style Variation and Point of View in Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
• 36 A Stylistic Analysis of Saul Bellow's Herzog: A mode of ‘postmodern polyphony’
• 37 (Im)Politeness In Dramatic Dialogue
• 38 Non-Ironic Turning Ironic Contextually: Multiple context-determined irony in ‘The Story of an Hour’
• 39 Building the Stages of Drama: Towards a Text World Theory account of dramatic play-texts
• 40 Paraphrase As a Way to a Contextualized Stylistic Analysis of Poetry: Tony Harrison's ‘Marked with D’