Böcker i Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics-serien

This book offers a systematic, bottom-up account of irony across both everyday contexts and literary and linguistic texts, using an empirically rigorous approach in distinguishing between central irony, non-central ironies, and non-ironies and highlighting a new way forward for irony research.

This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse.

Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to examine the evolving relationship between authors and readers in fictional works from 18th century English novels through to contemporary digital fiction

Intends to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. This study postulates that there is a free-flow of bottom-up and top-down affective, cognitive inputs during the engaged act of literary reading, and that reading does not necessarily begin or end when our eyes apprehend the words on the page.

This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan's pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text, and context are analyzed in the field and its related disciplines.

Analyzing Digital Fiction is the first volume of its kind to offer a collection of systematic, comprehensive and explicit applications of different methodological approaches to digital fiction. Chapters include analyses of hypertext fiction, Flash fiction, Twitter fiction and videogames with approaches taken from narratology, stylistics, semiotics and ludology.

Analyzing Digital Fiction is the first volume of its kind to offer a collection of systematic, comprehensive and explicit applications of different methodological approaches to digital fiction. Chapters include analyses of hypertext fiction, Flash fiction, Twitter fiction and videogames with approaches taken from narratology, stylistics, semiotics and ludology.

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume presents recent approaches to metaphor, illustrates a range of successful applications of the new cognitive models to literary texts, and provides an assessment of cognitive metaphor theory from a literary point of view.