Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1177/09639470221147786
Antonia Stoyanova
As one of the master stylists of our time, John Banville has honed his own unique style of writing. The typical Banville novel is a first-person confessional narrative of an aging male character troubled by his painful memories of failure and loss. In a struggle to cope with their traumatic life experiences, Banville’s protagonists attempt to find answers to haunting existential questions and rediscover their identities in the face of emotional fragmentation. This sense of dislocation and displacement thus emerges as a major theme of Banville’s fiction and his works generally revolve around the internal conflicts of a ‘divided self’. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the language of the novels reflects the inner split of the characters and what linguistic mechanisms Banville exploits to create the ‘divided self’ effect. This article examines a particular linguistic structure used as a pervasive narrative feature: sensory modality. I will more specifically explore sensory modality patterns with co-referential subject and object pronouns (referred here as ‘special effects’) analyzing them in the light of Systemic Functional Grammar as mental transitivity processes and will demonstrate how they constitute a powerful stylistic tool for constructing the image of the divided personality and for conveying self-disunity in retrospective novels.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-05DOI: 10.1177/09639470231152297
Yu Deng
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/09639470231152295
Raphael Marco Oliveira Carneiro
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/09639470221140693
K. O'Halloran
I present a posthumanist approach to literary interpretation using stylistic analysis. It is posthumanist since i) digital cameras/audio-video resources and editing applications prompt multimodal readings of literary works unlikely from human intuition alone; ii) anthropocentrism in literary texts is defamiliarised. I highlight how stylistic analysis can be used productively for developing multimodal creativity in posthumanist reading by motivating audio-video edits and effects. I model using Anne Brontë’s poem ‘Home’ (1846). When read only with intuition, ‘Home’ communicates young Brontë’s yearning for her family home. In contrast, this article has a non-intuitive digital multimodal realisation of this poem where a young Californian stuck in London because of pandemic (Covid-19) travel restrictions yearns for her home state in the aftermath of wildfires linked to anthropogenic climate change. This posthumanist transformative reading, flagging the negative repercussions of humans for their planetary home, defamiliarises the poem’s anthropocentric normality. Importantly, I show how stylistic analysis of ‘Home’ motivates creative use of audio-visual edits and effects in the posthumanist multimodal reading. The article makes contrast with standard interpretive practice in stylistics (‘humanist stylistics’). It also reflects on the value of posthumanist stylistics for extending students’ creative thinking in an educational context.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1177/09639470221147788
Sara Bartl, E. Lahey
Most stylistic analyses of literary texts begin with the text proper, largely ignoring the paratextual elements that precede it. The extent of this lacuna within stylistics is so great that a search through the back catalogue of Language and Literature, stylistics’ flagship journal, returns no results for contributions whose titles contain the terms ‘title’ or ‘paratext’. In what follows we underline the implications of this neglect through findings which point to the import of titles for readers’ interpretive processes. Drawing on our analysis of a 58-million-word corpus of book reviews from the online retailer Amazon.com, the research reported on here provides evidence for what many theorists have claimed but for which they have often provided no empirical support, namely, that titles contribute to the establishment of reader expectations about a text.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-12DOI: 10.1177/09639470221138397
Alice E. Haines
This article presents a new model of humour that can be used in the successful analysis of how and why literature can be found humorous. It deconstructs the theory that the perception of incongruity leads to the recognition of humour, proposing instead that the relationship between humour and incongruity is, in fact, the reverse of that generally assumed. I propose that humour is a process through which the familiar is brought to attention. One way this can occur is by drawing attention to the unnoticed contrasts between objects, making the familiar appear incongruous. The process can be modelled as a subjective construal (Langacker, 2008) in which the participants, and the process itself, are made prominent. This draws attention to the relationship between participants and to their shared experience of the world. I present an illustrative case study of subtle literary humour with an analysis of a passage from the short story ‘The Mouse’ by Saki (1910), demonstrating that, by modelling humour in the way I propose, it can be successfully explained using frameworks already in use in stylistic investigation.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1177/09639470221134379
D. McIntyre, Rocío Montoro
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1177/09639470221134380
Sandrine Sorlin
Paul Simpson got his PhD from the University of Ulster in 1984 and took up a post at the University of Nottingham the same year. He has since worked at Queen’s University Belfast and Liverpool University, and is currently at the latter institution. He was editor of Language and Literature from 2004 to 2009 after having been assistant editor. In this interview he recalls the influences that got him into stylistics and how he came to find a place for himself in the field. He explains why the international Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) is an essential outlet for like-minded individuals who may be in different ‘pockets’ around the world. He talks about his early interest in sociolinguistics and language variation and what fascinates him about language – the things that are usually dismissed by mainstream linguistics as too messy, problematic or slippery. The creativity of language and the pragmatic ways in which ‘language routines’ are subverted are at the heart of what interests him as a stylistician. This brings him to come back to the absurdity of speaking of ‘literary language’ as a separate genre. He comments on his time as editor of Language and Literature, the satisfactions and challenges of the work, the place of the journal in the editorial market and ventures a definition of the broad church of stylistics. Lastly he mentions how stylistics is picking up on new things all the time, going with the tide of new media and approaches, while keeping its momentum at all times and even ‘decolonizing’ itself in the process.
Paul Simpson于1984年从阿尔斯特大学获得博士学位，并于同年在诺丁汉大学任职。此后，他曾在贝尔法斯特女王大学和利物浦大学工作，目前在后者工作。2004年至2009年，他担任《语言与文学》的助理编辑。在这次采访中，他回忆起了他进入文体学的影响，以及他是如何在这个领域找到自己的位置的。他解释了为什么国际诗学和语言学协会（PALA）是世界各地志同道合的人的重要渠道。他谈到了他早期对社会语言学和语言变异的兴趣，以及语言让他着迷的地方——这些东西通常被主流语言学认为过于混乱、有问题或狡猾。作为一名造型学家，语言的创造力和颠覆“语言惯例”的务实方式是他感兴趣的核心。这让他回到了将“文学语言”作为一种单独的体裁来谈论的荒谬。他评论了自己担任《语言与文学》编辑的时间、作品的满足感和挑战、杂志在编辑市场上的地位，并大胆定义了广泛的文体学教会。最后，他提到了文体学是如何随着新媒体和新方法的潮流而不断吸收新事物的，同时始终保持其势头，甚至在这个过程中“去殖民化”自己。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1177/09639470221134382
Dan K. McIntyre
Mick Short is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at Lancaster University, UK. He studied English at the University of Lancaster from 1965, just one year after the university first opened, to 1968. He returned to teach at Lancaster in 1972, retiring in 2012. As an undergraduate he was taught by the early stylistician and poet Anne Cluysenaar, 1 who was instrumental in setting him on track for an academic career in stylistics. In 1979 he, Katie Wales, Ron Carter and others founded the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Then, in 1992 he became the first editor of Language and Literature. In this interview, he explains how he came to be interested in stylistics, as well as how his academic career began. He discusses what it was like to teach and research stylistics in its early days, the influence of structuralism on stylistics, the beginnings of discourse and pragmatic stylistics and the importance of corpus tools for moving stylistics forwards. He also sets out some concerns about current stylistics and how these concerns might be met in future.
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