Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics offers original, dynamic academic investigations into the related fields of rhetoric and stylistics. Books will focus on rhetorical or stylistic approaches to pedagogy, cognition, emotion, corpora, and multimodality, incorporating analytic studies conducted on the synchronic and/or diachronic discourses of literature, politics, law, news, advertisements, business, academe, and other subjects. This exciting series offers an innovative and challenging range of texts, providing rich resources for students and researchers alike.
Building Narratives on Screen: New Approaches in Telecinematic Stylistics
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By Paula Ghintuialǎ, Kimberley Pager-McClymont
February 24, 2026
This collection seeks to advance the growing field of telecinematic stylistics, building on burgeoning research in the stylistic study of aural and visual cinematic discourse through interdisciplinary perspectives and innovative methodologies. The volume expands on new approaches in stylistics, ...
Characterising Irony: A Systematic Approach to Literary and Linguistic Texts
1st Edition
By Steven Pattison
August 26, 2024
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. The ...
Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture
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By Christoph Schubert, Valentin Werner
May 27, 2024
This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse. As its point of departure, the book takes the notion of pop culture as a phenomenon characterized by the interaction of linguistic signs with other modes...
The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction
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By Virginie Iché, Sandrine Sorlin
January 29, 2024
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. The book ...
Monster Metaphors: When Rhetoric Runs Amok
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By Peter J. Adams
May 11, 2023
This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance. The volume begins ...
Repetition and Creation: Poetics of Autotextuality
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By Radosvet Kolarov
August 01, 2022
This book advances the notion of autotextuality, the dialogue between works in an author’s oeuvre, and the ways in which new texts are created in self-repetition through the tracing and revisiting of past texts and the subsequent uncovering of undisclosed meanings, unexhausted constructive ...
Discourse Deixis in Metafiction: The Language of Metanarration, Metalepsis and Disnarration
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By Andrea Macrae
December 18, 2020
This volume advances scholarly understanding of the ways in which discourse deixis underpins the workings of metafictional novels. Building on existing scholarship in the field, the book begins by mapping out key themes and techniques in metafiction and puts forward a focused and theoretically ...
Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication: Sustainable Perspectives
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By Federica Ferrari
June 30, 2020
This groundbreaking work adopts an alternative metaphor-based approach to challenge, unpack, and redefine our understanding of persuasion and strategic communication and the extents to which they shape political discourse. The book’s theoretical and methodological grounding in metaphor allows for ...
Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan
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By Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse, Nina Nørgaard
June 30, 2020
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. Featuring work from...
Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition
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By Patrick Colm Hogan
June 30, 2020
Given Ulysses’ perhaps unparalleled attention to the operations of the human mind, it is unsurprising that critics have explored the work’s psychology. Nonetheless, there has been very little research that draws on recent cognitive science to examine thought and emotion in this novel. Hogan sets ...
Similes, Puns and Counterfactuals in Literary Narrative
1st Edition
By Jennifer Riddle Harding
July 10, 2019
In this study, Jennifer Riddle Harding presents a cognitive analysis of three figures of speech that have readily identifiable forms: similes, puns, and counterfactuals. Harding argues that when deployed in literary narrative, these forms have narrative functions—such as the depiction of conscious ...
A Prosody of Free Verse: Explorations in Rhythm
1st Edition
By Richard Andrews
August 23, 2018
There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free verse. The main purpose of A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in rhythm is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms. Most studies have declared the attempt to write ...