The state of stylistics : PALA 26 / / edited by Greg Watson.

• Superior document: PALA ; 5
• Author: Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Watson, Greg
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: PALA (Series) ; 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (540 p.)
• Notes: "This collection of papers represents the culmination of the 26th annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) which was held at the University of Joensuu, in Eastern Finland, in July 2006."--Preface.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; ‘“Where are you going to my pretty maid?” “For detailed analysis”, sir, she said.’ /; A Grammarian's Funeral: On Browning, Post-Structuralism, and the State of Stylistics /; On Genuine Interdisciplinarity: Articulating Poetics as Theory /; Trewe Love at Solentsea? Stylistics Vs. Narratology in Thomas Hardy /; Who Is Afraid of Stylistics? Postgraduate Students’ Responses to Stylistics /; Fusion Style: Towards a Poetics of the Grotesque Body /; Donald Barthelme’s Art of Storytelling: A Cognitive-Semiotic Textual Analysis of ‘On the Deck,’ ‘At the Tolstoy Museum’ and ‘The Baby’ /; Evoking Interest, Evoking Meaning: The Literary Theme and the Cognitive Function of Stylistic Devices /; ‘Why Get Upset Over a Few Cases of Rhinoceritis?’: Possible Worlds in the Theatre of the Absurd /; A Multivariate Study of Style Differences in Poetry /; e-Lears: a Corpus Approach to Shakespeare and Tate /; Measuring Text Similarity Between the Two Editions of John Fowles’s The Magus /; ‘My Dearest Minnykins’: Style, Gender and Affect in 19th Century English Letters /; Functional Stylistics and Peripeteic Texts /; You Can’t Put Your Foot in the Same River Once: Relevance Stylistics and Rereading /; Dialogue and Discourse Structure: A Speech Move Analysis of Sherman Alexie’s Story ‘What You Pawn I Will Redeem’ /; Stylistic Analysis of Discoursal Identity Formation in Biographic Interviews with Two Senior Teachers of English in Hungary /; The Ellipsis of Haiku: The Effects of Poetic Ellipsis1 in the Framework of Relevance Theory /; Emotion Tracking Pedagogy: Towards Better Teaching of the National Curriculum for English /; Real People or Verbal Constructs: A Stylistic Analysis of Character in Fiction /; Just for Laughs: The Construction of Nonverbal Humour /; On the Phrase ‘Even with a Weight of Pleasure’ in The Prelude (Bk 2, 178) /; (Im)Politeness in Dramatic Dialogue: Understanding Face-Attack in Shakespeare’s Othello /; Mind-Style, Modality, and Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ /; Bibliography --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-511) and index.
• ISBN: 9401206082; 1435695321
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Greg Watson.

The State of Stylistics contains a broad collection of papers that investigate how stylistics has evolved throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In so doing, it considers how stylisticians currently perceive their own respective fields of enquiry. It also defines what stylistics is, and how we might use it in research and teaching.