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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461417003321

Titolo

Contemporary stylistics / / edited by Marina Lambrou and Peter Stockwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

©2007

ISBN

1-283-20777-X

9786613207777

1-4411-9306-5

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Contemporary studies in linguistics

Disciplina

808.042

Soggetti

English language - Style

English literature - History and criticism

American literature - History and criticism

Style, Literary

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The State of Contemporary Stylistics; PART A: STYLISTICS OF PROSE; PART B: STYLISTICS OF POETRY; PART C: STYLISTICS OF DIALOGUE AND DRAMA; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary Stylistics presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of the integrated study of language and literature. Written by internationally renowned researchers in stylistics, this volume of twenty chapters provides a showcase for the range of approaches and practices which form modern stylistics: from cognitive poetics to corpus linguistics, from explorations of mind-style and spoken discourse in narrative to the workings of viewpoint in lyric poetry, from word-meanings to the meanings and emotions of literary worlds, and more. Each chapter is introduced and set in context by