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.
Analyzing Digital Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Hans Rustad
July 27, 2016
Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are ...
Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots
1st Edition
By Dan Shen
March 03, 2016
In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this ...
Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives
1st Edition
By Christiana Gregoriou
May 21, 2015
In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing...
Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Fludernik
March 03, 2014
In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with ...
Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind
1st Edition
By Michael Burke
March 29, 2012
This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and ...