Stylistics

This volume shows how Kafka evokes vision and emotion as fundamentally enactive, and how this makes his writing "cognitively realistic" in this respect. Cognitive realism is introduced as a framework for exploring how fictional characters’ cognition correspond to or diverge from cognitive realities,..

This volume shows how Kafka evokes vision and emotion as fundamentally enactive, and how this makes his writing "cognitively realistic" in this respect. Cognitive realism is introduced as a framework for exploring how fictional characters’ cognition correspond to or diverge from cognitive realities,..

In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing ..

In this book, Michael Toolan explores the textual/grammatical nature of fictional narratives, critically re-examining foundational ideas about the role of lexical patterning in narrative texts, and also engages the cognitive or psychological processes at play in literary reading using stylistics, co..

This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer alongside experimental fringe writers such as Steve Tomasula, to uncover an embodied textual aesthetics in the information age. Bring..

In this study, Jennifer Riddle Harding presents a cognitive analysis of three figures of speech that have readily identifiable forms: similes, puns, and counterfactuals. With a solid cognitive grounding, Harding’s approach emphasizes the relationship between figurative forms and narrative effects...

This book presents a complete reconsideration of the nature of narrative organization developed in the framework of a new and comprehensive approach to cognitive science: enaction. The model is here elaborated in relation to stories by Henry James and Gabriel García Márquez. Popova’s interpretation ..

This book presents a complete reconsideration of the nature of narrative organization developed in the framework of a new and comprehensive approach to cognitive science: enaction. The model is here elaborated in relation to stories by Henry James and Gabriel García Márquez. Popova’s interpretation ..

In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert..

First Published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary works that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years and have in some way been pivotal in discussions of authenticity, autobiographicality, testimonial representation, and referentiality. By presenting a model..