Style articles from December 2004

Style archives from December 2004

Preface.(Stylistics)
December 22, 2004... Is Stanley Fish the E. F. Hutton of literary studies? It would seem so. Fish recently defined the "E. F. Hutton position" as "when he speaks, everyone listens" ("Clueless," para. 10). In the 1980s, Hutton, a Wall Street firm, ran a series of...

Collocational analysis as a stylistic discovery procedure: the case of Flannery O'Connor's eyes.
December 22, 2004... 1. Introduction A stylistic analysis seeks to do at least one of the following: (1) advance linguistic and/or stylistic theory or methodology, (2) advance our understanding of the author(s) under discussion in a way that would not be...

Representing characters' speech and thought in narrative fiction: a study of England, England by Julian Barnes.
December 22, 2004... 1. Introduction Much work in stylistics involves the in-depth analysis of individual literary texts or extracts, usually in order to relate specific linguistic choices and patterns to potential meanings and effects. To my mind, this kind...

"Little is left to tell": Beckett's theater of mind, Ohio Impromptu, and the new cognitive turn in analyzing drama.
December 22, 2004... The focus of this article is a further investigation into the already existing intersection of research in cognitive science and literary studies. Special attention will be paid to the specificity of the dramatic text, seen as both verbal and...

Toward a cognitive rhetoric of Imagism.
December 22, 2004... "Imagism is dead; long live the Imagists!" --Glenn Hughes (Imagist 23) 1. On Imagism "What was Imagism?" is not an easy question to answer. For example, Ezra Pound called Stanley Coffman's 1951 book, Imagism: A Chapter for the...

Cognitive stylistics in the classroom.
December 22, 2004... 1. Introduction Cognitive stylistics has recently emerged as a topic of much interest in university education in both literature and linguistics departments. (1) Its popularity is primarily built on the success that literary stylistics has...

Stylistics in France today.
December 22, 2004... The study of stylistics in France is as varied and controversial as in many other countries. Stylisticians are tempted to subdivide it into discourse stylistics, poetics, theoretical stylistics, or even linguistic stylistics (stylistics based...

A new paradigm for literary studies, or: the teething troubles of cognitive poetics.(Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, Cognitive Poetics in Practice, Cognitive Stylistics: Language and Cognition in Text Analysis)(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Peter Stockwell. Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 193 pp. $80.00 cloth; $25.95 paper. Joanna Gavins and Gerard Steen, eds. Cognitive Poetics in Practice. New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 188 pp. $90.00...

Patrick Colm Hogan. The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Patrick Colm Hogan. The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 302 pp. $65.00 cloth. The sciences and humanities characteristically follow alternate research models,...

Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000.(Book Review)
December 22, 2004... Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 307 pp. $65.00 cloth; $22.00 paper. This well-organized and -written study constitutes an excellent...