The book demonstrates that the wit and humour of her fiction is derived instead from a complex and subtle interplay between different styles.

In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society.

This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'.

This groundbreaking collection holds appeal for a broad audience, including students and teachers of literary theory, literary history, cultural studies, and literature and science studies.

This volume is the ideal introduction for those approaching the study of experimental literature for the first time or looking to further their knowledge.

This book offers a new approach to translation, grounded in stylistics, and it will be an invaluable resource for undergraduates and postgraduates approaching translation studies.

The epistolary novel is a form which has been neglected in most accounts of the development of the novel.

This work provides an overview of a wide range of approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework.

Emmott draws on insights from discourse analysis and artificial intelligence to present a detailed model of how readers build, maintain and use mental representations of fictional contexts, and how they keep track of a complex, changing ...

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