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.
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
1st Edition
Edited
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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 ...
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 ...
Making Sense of Narrative Text: Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories
1st Edition
By Michael Toolan
August 23, 2018
This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on ...
From Conversation to Oral Tradition: A Simplest Systematics for Oral Traditions
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By Raymond F Person
February 12, 2018
This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our ...
Stories, Meaning, and Experience: Narrativity and Enaction
1st Edition
By Yanna B. Popova
February 12, 2018
This is a book about the human propensity to think about and experience the world through stories. ‘Why do we have stories?’, ‘How do stories create meaning for us?’, and ‘How is storytelling distinct from other forms of meaning-making?’ are some of the questions that this book seeks to answer. ...
The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony: Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies
1st Edition
By Chantelle Warner
May 31, 2017
In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary autobiographies that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years. These books have all received critical attention from the popular press, topped bestseller lists, and have been pivotal in discussions of ...
Kafka’s Cognitive Realism
1st Edition
By Emily Troscianko
November 08, 2016
This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka’s poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on literary texts. The volume shows that the concept of "cognitive realism" can be a critically ...