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Style archives from June 2007
Style in fiction: new directions for research.(Editorial)
June 22, 2007... This issue of Style with the theme "Style in fiction: new directions of research" is the published outcome of a celebratory symposium held at Lancaster University, England, on March 11, 2006. The reason for the celebration was as follows. In...
Style in fiction revisited: the beginning of great expectations.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... 1. Style in Fiction Revisited
In the early 1980s, which saw the publication of SIF (our abbreviation for Style in Fiction: An Introduction to English Fictional Prose), the study of fictional prose style using the methods of linguistics was...
Narrative anchors and the processes of story construction: the case of Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... Linguistic theory has often prompted new ways of addressing some of the central questions of stylistic analysis (to mention only the emergence of discourse analysis or pragmatics). The issues of correlations between form and function, which...
Mind style twenty-five years on.
June 22, 2007... Introduction
Chapter 6 of Leech and Short's Style in Fiction was devoted to the notion of "mind style," which had been introduced four years earlier by Roger Fowler in order to capture "any distinctive linguistic representation of an...
Corpus stylistics, stylometry, and the styles of Henry James.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2007... 1. Introduction
They would dine together at the worst, and, with all respect to
dear old Waymarsh--if not even, for that matter, to himself--there
was little fear that in the sequel they shouldn't see enough of
each other....
Stylistics meets Cognitive Science: studying style in fiction and readers' attention from an interdisciplinary perspective.
June 22, 2007... Introduction
Readers' attention to text has been studied for a number of years in both the Humanities and Cognitive Science. Within the Humanities, attention is discussed in stylistics using the notion of foregrounding (Mukarovsky), with...
Thought presentation twenty-five years on.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... 1. Introduction
In this article I will briefly review the model of speech and thought presentation outlined in Chapter 10 of Style in Fiction (henceforth SIF, see 2 below) and how it has been developed through the corpus-based work of the...
Patricia Murphy. In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Patricia Murphy. In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women. Missouri: U of Missouri P, 2006. pp. ix + 256. $39.95. ISBN: 9780826216823.
Under any other circumstances Lady Constantine might have felt a
...
Mieke Bal. A Mieke Bal Reader.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Mieke Bal. A Mieke Bal Reader. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. xxiv + 491 pp. $28.00 paper.
After more than thirty years of diverse, prolific publication in criticism and theory, Mieke Bal is certainly entitled to a reader. Although one aim...