This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns. Drawing on the PhraseoRom international project on the phraseology of contemporary novels, the contributed chapters combine literary studies with corpus linguistics to analyse fantasy, romance, crime, historical and science fiction in French and English. The authors offer new insights into long-standing debates on genre distinction and the hybridization of genres by deploying a new, interdisciplinary methodology. Sitting at the intersection of literature and linguistics, with a firm grounding in the digital humanities, this book will be of particular relevance to literary scholars, corpus stylists, contrastivists and lexicologists, as well as general readers with an interest in twentieth-century genre fiction.

Les contributions a cet ouvrage s'appuient, toutes, sur des approches innovantes relevant du vaste champ des Humanites numeriques. Ils accordent une attention particuliere aux analyses linguistiques et discursives d'expressions polylexicales statistiquement pertinentes dans des textes litteraires, aux procedes d'identification des genres litteraires sur la base de methodes statistiques, ainsi qu'a la stylistique litteraire outillee. The contributions discuss new approaches from the broad field of digital humanities, with a particular focus on issues surrounding literary phraseology and literary stylistics. Special attention is given to linguistic and pragmatic/discourse analyses of statistically significant multi-word expressions in literary texts, ways of identifying literary genres on the basis of statistical methods, and corpus stylistics.

This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns. Drawing on the PhraseoRom international project on the phraseology of contemporary novels, the contributed chapters combine literary studies with corpus linguistics to analyse fantasy, romance, crime, historical and science fiction in French and English. The authors offer new insights into long-standing debates on genre distinction and the hybridization of genres by deploying a new, interdisciplinary methodology. Sitting at the intersection of literature and linguistics, with a firm grounding in the digital humanities, this book will be of particular relevance to literary scholars, corpus stylists, contrastivists and lexicologists, as well as general readers with an interest in twentieth-century genre fiction.