Stylistics : : prospect & retrospect / / edited by David L. Hoover and Sharon Lattig.

• Superior document: PALA papers ; 3
• Author: Poetics and Linguistics Association.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hoover, David L., 1949-; Lattig, Sharon.; Poetics and Linguistics Association.; Poetics and Linguistics Association. International Conference
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: PALA (Series) ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Notes: "This volume comprises essays selected and edited from among the presentations given at the 24th annual international conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association in New York in 2004"--Introd.

Stylistics: Prospect andamp; Retrospect looks backward toward classic and foundational approaches and texts that helped to establish the field of stylistics. It also looks forward by examining recent innovations that seem likely to alter the ways in which style is studied in the years to come. The essays presented here, written by an array of experts from nine countries on four continents, employ a wide range of approaches to works that range from romantic poetry to contemporary fiction and from traditional folktales and nursery rhymes to contemporary film. The variety of authors, approaches, and works found here testifies to the vitality of the field of stylistics, and these essays should appeal to all those interested in the nature of style and in the history and future of stylistics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Foregrounding: Past, Present, Future / Willie van Peer , Sonia Zyngier and Jèmeljan Hakemulder -- Modernist Poetics of Estrangement: Ezra Pound’s Answer to Stéphane Mallarmé / Anne Birien -- Local Interpretation and the Syntax of Keats’s ‘To Autumn’ / Robin J. Sowards -- Story Elements as Sets / Henrik Schärfe -- The Metrical Structure of Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes: A Corpus Study / Yuchau E. Hsiao -- Embodiment and the Irreducible Sign: Towards a Theoretical Anthropo-Semiotic Grounding for Literary Textual Analysis / Ulf Cronquist -- Historical Transformations of Free Indirect Style / Violeta Sotirova -- Using Speech and Thought Presentation to Validate Hypotheses Regarding the Nature of the Crime Novels of Andrea Camilleri / John Douthwaite -- How to Make a Drama out of a Speech Act: The Speech Act of Apology in the Film A Fish Called Wanda / Mick Short -- Bibliography -- Index.