Making Sense of Narrative Text - Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories

Summary

In this book, Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles, narratological ideas, and cognitive stylistic work.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Toolan, Michael (University of Birmingham Toolan, Toolan Michael
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2018
• EAN: 9780367023522
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02352-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, Language: reference and general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism