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).

Sara Whiteley is Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is a cognitive stylistician with a particular interest in the way readers experience contemporary literature. She is co-author of The Discourse of Reading Groups: Integrating Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives (Routledge, 2016) and co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Part I. Introducing Contemporary Stylistics

1. Contemporary Stylistics

Part II. Literature as Language

2. Foregrounding
3. Phonemes to Sound Patterning
4. Morphemes to Words
5. Phrase to Sentence
6. Register, Lexical Semantics, and Cohesion

Part III. Literature as Discourse

7. Dialogue and Spoken Discourse
8. Speech, Thought, and Narration
9. Modality and Point of View
10. Transitivity and Ideology
11. Varieties and Invented Languages

Part IV. Text as Cognition

12. Figure and Ground
13. Cognitive Deixis
14. Schemas, Scripts, and Prototypes
15. Cognitive Grammar

Part V. Reading as Mental Spaces

16. Conceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Integration
17. Text-Worlds
18. Negation and Lacuna

Part VI. Reading as Experience

19. Analysing the Multimodal Text
20. Understanding Emotions

Part VII. Reading as Data

21. Corpus Stylistics
22. Investigating Readers

Part VIII. Conclusion

23. Future Stylistics

References

Literary Works

Poetry

Prose

Other Media

Critical Works

Corpus Programs

Index