Contemporary Stylistics

Key Features:

Introduces the key terms for each contemporary stylistic framework

Outlines 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 chapter

Addresses the recent attention to multimodal and digital literature and research into empiricism and emotion

Each topic is explored through original analyses of a wide range of texts, including poetry, prose, dialogue, song lyrics, political discourse, and linguistic transcripts