This second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience.

Michael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University. He is the author of Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind (Routledge, 2011), and a co-author of Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition: Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts (Routledge, 2022).

Introduction

Stylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience

PART 1

Historical perspectives in stylistics

1. Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics

2. Formalist stylistics

3. Functionalist stylistics

4. Reader response criticism and stylistics

PART II

Core issues in stylistics

5. The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics

6. (New) historical stylistics

7.Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory

8. Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle

9. Stylistics and relevance theory

10. Stylistics, point of view and modality

11. Stylistics and narratology

12. Metaphor and stylistics

13. Speech and thought presentation in stylistics

PART III

Contemporary topics in stylistics

14. Pedagogical stylistics

15. Stylistics, drama and performance

16. Schema theory in stylistics

17. Stylistics and text world theory

18. Stylistics and cognitive grammar

19. Cognitive poetics

20. Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics

21. Feminist stylistics

22. Literary pragmatics and stylistics

23. Corpus stylistics

24. Stylistics and translation

25.Critical stylistics

PART IV

Emerging and future trends in stylistics

26. Creative writing and stylistics

27. Stylistics and real readers

28. Stylistics and film

29. Multimodality and stylistics

30. Forensic stylistics

31. Stylistics and Children's Literature

32. A corpus stylistics Approach to mental health

33. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscience

Index