Style articles from December 2005

Style archives from December 2005

How stylisticians draw on narratology: approaches, advantages and disadvantages.(%)
December 22, 2005... Although modern stylistics has a relatively longer history than narratology, the two disciplines have been enjoying a quite parallel development for the past few decades, with Britain and the United States forming the international centers of...

The uncertainties of conversational exchange: dialogue monitoring as a function of the narrative voice.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... Introduction In their Introduction to Text Linguistics, Robert de Beaugrande and Wolfgang Dressler propose a view of the text as a self-regulating cybernetic system as a means for resolving some of the difficulties associated with text...

The gentleman in the white waistcoat: Dickens and metonymy.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... Very early in Oliver Twist, Oliver makes the famous blunder of begging for more food, an offense that promptly brings him before the board of commissioners of the workhouse. When Bumble the beadle confirms that Oliver has asked for more after...

Intermental thought in the novel: the Middlemarch mind.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... Introduction This essay is about intermental thought in the novel. Such thinking is joint, group, shared, or collective, as opposed to intramental, individual, or private thought. It is also known as socially distributed, situated, or...

Pre-facing simile vehicles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnets.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... 1 Of late the distinction between metaphor and simile has been blurred. Janet Soskice writes: "... the presence of a 'like' is an aspect of superficial grammar, and in no way impedes meaning. In such cases metaphor and simile, while...

Chandler's American style.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005... Often seen as an exemplar of the hard-boiled mystery novelist, Raymond Chandler frequently commented on the Americanness of his style. Though his achievements as a stylist are often acknowledged, they are often passed over swiftly en route to...

Hegemonic registers in Momaday's House Made of Dawn.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... As James Zappen reminds us, Mikhail Bakhtin identified the modern novel as the mode of discourse most impacted by heteroglossia, the conflicting worldviews of diverse sociolects and registers (13). In N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, this...

Describing the circle of narrative theory: a review essay.(Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory)(Book review)
December 22, 2005... David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan, eds. Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. xxxix + 718 pp. $210.00 cloth. 1 The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, published under...

Charles Altieri. The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Charles Altieri. The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 299 pp. $52.50 cloth; $22.50 paper. In this recent book, Charles Altieri pits cognitivist philosophy against an aesthetic...

Thomas L. Martin. Poiesis and Possible Worlds: A Study in Modality and Literary Theory.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Thomas L. Martin. Poiesis and Possible Worlds: A Study in Modality and Literary Theory. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xiii + 198 pp. $50.00 cloth. This lucidly written study seeks to forge new interconnections between...

Paul Simpson. Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Paul Simpson. Stylistics: A Resource Book for Students. Routledge English Language Introductions. New York: Routledge, 2004. xiv + 247 pp. $99.95 cloth; $29.95 paper. Paul Simpson is a productive researcher in and an experienced teacher of...

A. C. Spearing. Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... A. C. Spearing. Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 273 pp. $95.00 cloth. A. C. Spearing hopes this book "may be read by some theorists of...

Angus Fletcher. A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination.(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Angus Fletcher. A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 316 pp. $29.95 cloth. Angus Fletcher's previous contributions to the study of poetics...