Contemporary Stylistics: Language, Cognition, Interpretation

Contemporary Stylistics provides readers with the tools to analyze their own responses to literary texts, introducing the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics. It includes innovative activities for students and case studies of work by writers like Dylan Thomas, EL James, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 288 pages
\n Publication date: 28 February 2018
\n Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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How do texts create meaning? How do we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become lost in a book or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character? Through close attention to the way texts are written and the language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind, Contemporary Stylistics provides readers with the tools to begin answering these questions. In doing so, it introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyze your own responses to literary texts. Including innovative activities for students and with case studies of work by writers like Dylan Thomas, EL James, and Kazuo Ishiguro, this is a detailed analysis of contemporary stylistics that offers both historical contextualization of the discipline and points towards its possible future direction.

Key Features:

Introduces the key terms for each contemporary stylistic framework

Outlines the foundations of the discipline and addresses cutting-edge developments such as reader response research, corpus methods, multimodality, and reader emotion

Contains practical analyses, innovative exercises for students, and further reading suggestions in each chapter

Addresses the recent attention to multimodal and digital literature and research into empiricism and emotion

Each topic is explored through original analyses of a wide range of texts, including poetry, prose, dialogue, song lyrics, political discourse, and linguistic transcripts

There are stylistic and cognitive poetic analyses through the book. The key case studies include:

The Canal by Lee Rourke (2010)

Zang Tumb Tumb by Marinetti (1914)

River in Spate by .

\n Weight: 522g\n
Dimension: 138 x 215 x 22 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780748682775\n \n