Style articles from June 2003

Style archives from June 2003

Little boxes: the effects of the stanza on poetic narrative.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... A recent handful of books suggests that a renewed interest in formalism may be becoming a trend in literary studies. Formalism--or the aesthetic--in general is defended in Michael P. Clark's Revenge of the Aesthetic, George Levine's Aesthetics...

Criminally minded: the stylistics of justification in contemporary American crime fiction.
June 22, 2003... This paper is part of a study to explore the stylistics of contemporary American crime fiction. In the paper I conduct an investigation into the criminal mind as portrayed in contemporary works by Patricia Cornwell, Michael Connelly and James...

Lawrence and the creative process.
June 22, 2003... Heidegger, in "The Origin of the Work of Art," says that "[the] work's createdness [...] can obviously be grasped only in the process of creation" and that "we must [...] go into the activity of the artist in order to arrive at the origin of...

Narrative and cognition in Beowulf.
June 22, 2003... This essay explores ways in which narrative functions as a "cognitive artifact," i.e., something used by humans for the purpose of supporting or enabling cognition. The essay grows out of our ongoing attempt to blend insights from several...

Why you can't speak: second-person narration, voice, and a new model for understanding narrative.
June 22, 2003... Exactly how does second-person narration relate to the more commonly employed and more frequently discussed modes of first- and third-person narrations? The very term second-person suggests a distinct and exclusive narrative category from both...

Style stands still.
June 22, 2003... When I began this study, I wondered what a linguist might have to say that would be appropriate and interesting to readers of a journal with a name like Style. In this context, it quickly became obvious to me that my own ordinary understanding...

Concerning Gabriel Josipovici.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Monika Fludernik. Echoes and Mirrorings: Gabriel Josipovici's Creative Oeuvre. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000. xvi + 264 pp. No price, paper. Monika Fludernik, Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, has...

Guy Aston, ed. Learning with Corpora.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Houston: Athelstan, 2001. 276 pp. $24.95 paper. The relationship between academic research and actual classroom teaching, between what Graeme Kennedy has called the "scientifically interesting" and the "pedagogically useful" (qtd. in Aston...