Description:
Contemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts.
Brief description: Alison Gibbons is Reader in Contemporary Stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the author of Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature (Routledge 2012) and editor of Mark Z. Danielewski (Manchester University Press 2011), the Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (Routledge 2012), Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism (Rowman & Littlefield International 2017) and Pronouns in Literature: Perspectives and Positions in Language (Palgrave 2018).
Review Quotes: Gibbons and Whiteley present an elegant and usable guide to current stylistics in all its disciplinary richness. They demonstrate the appeal of the field with brilliantly creative analyses of a wide range of literature. Any literary criticsm of any literary text will be richer with this book to hand.--Professor Peter Stockwell, University of Nottingham