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This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience.
List of contents
Introduction
Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience
PART 1Historical perspectives in stylistics1. Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics
2. Formalist stylistics
3. Functionalist stylistics
4. Reader response criticism and stylistics
PART IICore issues in stylistics5. 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 IIIContemporary topics in stylistics14
. Pedagogical stylistics
15. Stylistics, drama and performance
16. Schema theory in stylistics
17. Stylistics and text world theory
18. Stylistics and cognitive grammar
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 IVEmerging and future trends in stylistics26. Creative writing and stylistics
27. Stylistics and real readers
28. Stylistics and film
29. Multimodality and stylistics
30. Forensic stylistics
31. Stylistics and Children's Literature
32. A corpus stylistics Approach to mental health
33. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience
Index
About the author
Michael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University. He is the author of
Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind (Routledge, 2011), and a co-author of
Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition: Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts (Routledge, 2022).
Summary
This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience.
