Books in the Advances in Stylistics series

A study of D H Lawrence's presentation of narrative viewpoint, resolving the controversies in narratology and Lawrence criticism. It focuses mainly on Lawrence's third novel, "Sons and Lovers", occupying a crucial position in his oeuvre and judged by critics to be his first mature piece.

Introduces the contextual construction of oppositional meaning. This book provides a discussion of the importance of constructed opposition in hegemonic practice and makes a case for the inclusion of opposition as a central tool of critical discourse analysis. It is suitable for researchers and graduates in linguistics and language studies.

World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the ''text-as-world'' metaphor has become one of the most prevalent and productive means of describing the experiencing of producing and receiving discourse. This has been the case in a range of disciplines, including stylistics, cognitive poetics, narratology, discourse analysis and literary theory.The metaphor has enabled analysts to formulate a variety of frameworks for describing and examining the textual and conceptual mechanics involved in human communication, articulating these variously through such concepts as ''possible worlds'', ''text-worlds'' and ''storyworlds''. Each of these key approaches shares an understanding of discourse as a logically grounded, cognitively and pragmatically complex phenomenon. Discourse in this sense is capable of producing highly immersive and emotionally affecting conceptual spaces in the minds of discourse participants.The chapters examine how best to document and analyze this and this is an essential collection for stylisticians, linguists and narrative theorists.

Investigates how binary oppositions are constructeddiscursively and how they are used in news reports in the British press.

Includes a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. This book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s onwards.

Moving across Shakespeare studies, language studies and linguistics, this book develops a coherent analysis of the stylistics of Shakespeare's language. It testifies the interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up captivating vistas of investigation. It includes an array of theoretical approaches and findings.

Narrative Retellings presents pioneering work at the intersection of stylistics and narrative study to provide new insights into the diverse forms of fictional and factual narratives and their retellings. Common types of retelling, such as translation, adaptation, textual intervention and reader responses are reconceptualised in the chapters, and fresh insights are offered into experiences retold as autofiction, witness statements and advertorials on social media. From modernising the most cherished novels of Jane Austen to deciphering conflicting testimonials following the Hillsborough disaster, this volume reveals the complexities involved in all forms of narrative retellings. As such, it makes a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary study of stylistics and to the understanding of narrative texts.

Moving across Shakespeare studies, language studies and linguistics, this book develops a coherent analysis of the stylistics of Shakespeare's language. It testifies the interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up captivating vistas of investigation. It includes array of theoretical approaches and new findings.