The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics is published by Cambridge University Press in May 2014. Edited by Peter Stockwell and Sara Whiteley, The Handbook comprises 39 chapters by the leading stylisticians around the world. It provides a survey and evaluation of the field, and offers new exemplary analyses and demonstrations of the power of stylistics as a discipline.
Stylistics has become the most common name for a discipline which at various times has been termed 'literary linguistics', 'rhetoric', 'poetics', 'literary philology' and 'close textual reading'. This Handbook is the definitive account of the field, drawing on linguistics and related subject areas such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, educational pedagogy, computational methods, literary criticism and critical theory. Placing stylistics in its intellectual and international context, each chapter includes a detailed illustrative example and case study of stylistic practice, with arguments and methods open to examination, replication and constructive critical discussion. As an accessible guide to the theory and practice of stylistics, it will equip the reader with a clear understanding of the ethos and principles of the discipline, as well as with the capacity and confidence to engage in stylistic analysis.
A pdf of the opening 'Introduction' chapter of The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics is available here.
A pdf of the closing 'Coda' chapter is available here.
A blog article on the publication of this book can be found here.
And, until May 25th only, a discount code for the hardback can be downloaded here.
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