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. Issues that are covered include:
historical perspectives, centring on rhetoric, formalism and functionalism. the elements of stylistic analysis, including foregrounding, relevance theory, conversation analysis, narrative, metaphor, speech and thought presentation and point of view. current areas of influential research such as cognitive poetics, corpus stylistics, critical stylistics, multimodality, creative writing and reader response. four newly commissioned chapters in the emerging fields of cognitive grammar, forensic linguistics, the stylistics of children’s literature and a corpus stylistic study of mental health issues. All of these new chapters are written by leading researchers in their respective fields.
Each of the 33 chapters in this volume is written by a specialist. Each chapter provides an introduction to the subject, an overview of its history, an instructive example of how to conduct a stylistic analysis, a section with recommendations for practice and a discussion of possible future developments in the area for readers to follow up on.
The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics, second edition is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates and undergraduate students working in this area.
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 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 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. Forensic stylistics 31. Stylistics and Children’s Literature 32. A corpus stylistics Approach to mental health 33. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience Index
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).
Reviews for The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics
""The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics offers a wide-ranging and practical resource for students and researchers of the subject. Each chapter is engagingly written and covers a key topic in contemporary stylistics. A must-have guide to the study of language and style."" Professor Joanna Gavins, Chair in English Language and Literature, School of English, University of Sheffield, UK Praise for the first edition ""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."" Professor Dan McIntyre, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden
