Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in
cognitive poetics and stylisticsHow do texts create meaning? How do
we arrive at our textual interpretations? Why do we become 'lost in
a book' or feel deep emotion in response to a literary character?
Through close attention to the way texts are written and the
language they use, as well as what we know about the human mind,
'Contemporary Stylistics' provides readers with the tools to begin
answering these questions. In doing so, it introduces the
theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and
cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your
own responses to literary texts. Including innovative activities
for students and with case studies of work by writers like Dylan
Thomas, EL James and Kazuo Ishiguro, this is a detailed analysis of
contemporary stylistics that offers both historical
contextualization of the discipline and points towards its possible
future direction.Key Features:Introduces the key terms for each
contemporary stylistic frameworkOutlines the foundations of the
discipline and addresses cutting-edge developments such as reader
response research, corpus methods, multimodality and reader emotion
Contains practical analyses, innovative exercises for students, and
further reading suggestions in each chapterAddresses the recent
attention to multimodal and digital literature and research into
empiricism and emotionEach topic is explored through original
analyses of a wide range of texts, including poetry, prose,
dialogue, song lyrics, political discourse, and linguistic
transcriptsThere are stylistic and cognitive poetic analyses
through the book. The key case studies include:'The Canal' Lee
Rourke (2010)'Zang Tumb Tumb' by Marinetti (1914)'River in Spate'
by Louis MacNeice'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas (1954)'Space
Sonnet & Polyfilla' by Edwin Morgan (1977)'In Defense of Our
Overgrown Garden' by Matthea Harvey (2000)'House of Cards''What is
the What' by Dave Eggers (2006)'Ash Wednesday' by Ethan Hawke
(2002)'Fresh Meat''Fifty Shades of Grey' by E. L. James
(2012)'Received Pronunciation' by Sally Goldsmith (2012)'The house
is not the same since you left' by Henry Normal (1993)'The Lives of
Others' by Neel Mukherjee (2014)'My Name is Lucy Barton' by
Elizabeth Stroud (2016)'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia' by
Mohsin Hamid (2013)'The Unconsoled' by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)'The
One Ronnie''The Girl on the Train' by Paula Hawkins (2015)'I Am The
Song' by Charles Causley'Hypothetical' by Maria Taylor'This is the
Poem in which I Have Not Left You' by Julia Copus (2012)'13, rue
Therese' by Elena Mauli Shapiro (2011)'Illuminae' by Amie Kaufman
and Jay Kristoff (2015)'Karen' by Blast Theory (2015)'Blood Story'
by Melvin Burgess
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