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List of contents
Introduction
Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience
PART 1
Historical perspectives in stylistics
1. Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics
2. Formalist stylistics
3. Functionalist stylistics
4. Reader response criticism and stylistics
PART II
Core issues in stylistics
5. The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics
6. (New) historical stylistics
7. Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory
8. Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle
9. Stylistics and relevance theory
10. Stylistics, point of view and modality
11. Stylistics and narratology
12. Metaphor and stylistics
13. Speech and thought presentation in stylistics
PART III
Contemporary topics in stylistics
14. Pedagogical stylistics
15. Stylistics, drama and performance
16. Schema theory in stylistics
17. Stylistics and text world theory
18. Stylistics and blending
19. Cognitive poetics
20. Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics
21. Feminist stylistics
22. Literary pragmatics and stylistics
23. Corpus stylistics
24. Stylistics and translation
25. Critical stylistics
PART IV
Emerging and future trends in stylistics
26. Creative writing and stylistics
27. Stylistics and real readers
28. Stylistics and film
29. Multimodality and stylistics
30. Stylistics and comics
31. Stylistics and hypertext fiction
32. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience
Index
About the author
Michael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at University College Roosevelt (Utrecht University). His books include Literary Reading Cognition and Emotion (2011) and Pedagogical Stylistics (eds. Burke et al, 2012). He is a former Chair of the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).
Summary
The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics covers all major stylistics topics in a comprehensive and detailed fashion from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience.
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"The updating of knowledge is paramount to every discipline and The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics is a book of this kind. Its content indicates that stylistics is a continuous and flourishing area of academic study."- Shisheng Liu, President of the China Society of Stylistics
"Because of its wide and in-depth presentation, I feel sure that this handbook will be warmly welcomed by both students and teachers working in the flourishing field of stylistics." - Peter Verdonk, Emeritus Professor of Stylistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"This is an indispensable beginner’s guide to stylistics, packed full of practical advice and demonstrating the breadth of the discipline in its coverage of everything from the origin of stylistics in classical rhetoric to current advances in cognitive neuroscience." - Dan McIntyre, University of Huddersfield, UK
"The volume would also come in handy for more advanced students working on student projects in stylistics, discourse analysis, or literary criticism, and such readers would be likely to find inspiration for theoretical and methodological frameworks for their projects. With this in mind, it is recommended that university libraries acquire a least one copy of this volume." - Kim Ebensgaard Jensen, The LINGUIST List
"...The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics is an important, interesting and very useful volume. Its readability, comprehensiveness and practical orientation make it eminently usable. I would strongly recommend any library to acquire a copy as soon as possible." - Simone Bacchini, Reference Specialist, The British Library, London, UK, in Reference Reviews
