Sandrine Sorlin - Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction

Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction

Advances in Stylistics

Series Editors:

Dan McIntyre, University of Huddersfield, UK and Louise Nuttall, University of Huddersfield, UK

Editorial Board:

Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UK

Beatrix Busse, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Szilvia Csbi, Independent Scholar

Yaxiao Cui, University of Nottingham, UK

Manuel Jobert, Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3, France

Lorenzo Mastopierro, University of Nottingham, UK

Eric Rundquist, Pontifica Universidad Catlica de Chile, Chile

Larry Stewart, College of Wooster, USA

Odette Vassallo, University of Malta, Malta

Peter Verdonk, University of Amsterdam (Emeritus), The Netherlands

Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USA

Titles in the series:

Chick Lit: The Stylistics of Cappuccino Fiction , Roco Montoro

Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice , Yufang Ho

Crime Fiction Migration , Christiana Gregoriou

D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint , Violeta Sotirova

The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond , Roberta Piazza

I. A. Richards and the Rise of Cognitive Stylistics , David West

Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar , Louise Nuttall

Opposition in Discourse , Lesley Jeffries

Oppositions and Ideology in News Discourse , Matt Davies

Pedagogical Stylistics , Michael Burke, Szilvia Csbi, Lara Week and Judit Zerkowitz

Style in the Renaissance , Patricia Canning

Stylistics and Shakespeares Language , Mireille Ravassat

Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States , Zsofia Demjen

Text World Theory and Keats Poetry , Marcello Giovanelli

The Stylistics of Poetry , Peter Verdonk

World Building , Joanna Gavins and Ernestine Lahey

World Building in Spanish and English Spoken Narratives , Jane Lugea

Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction

Edited by Sandrine Sorlin

Contents

I would like to thank here all the contributors to this volume who accepted right away my invitation to bring their respective expertise to the notion of manipulation in fiction during a workshop I organized in Aix-en-Provence in April 2017. It was a most pleasant and fruitful day of work among merry and experienced stylisticians. This study day was funded by the Institut Universitaire de France , which I wish to thank for making it financially possible to gather recognized experts around a common topic for, I hope, productive results. I extend my thanks to the editors of the series Advances in Stylistics , Dan McIntyre and Louise Nuttall, who accepted the project with interest and enthusiasm, and also to the reviewers of the book chapters for their time and precious insights, and more globally, to the Bloomsbury team which was so helpful during the whole publishing process (Becky Holland and Andrew Wardell especially).

The poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas (from The Poems of Dylan Thomas , copyright 1952 by Dylan Thomas) is here reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp as well as by permission of The Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas and the poem Upon Opening the Chest Freezer (2010) by Simon Armitage is reproduced by permission of the author.

Marc Alexander is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Glasgow and is Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English. His research primarily focuses on the study of words, meaning, and effect in English, including historical lexicology, Parliamentary discourse from 1803 to the present, and the stylistics of detective fiction.

Billy Clark is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Northumbria University. His research and teaching interests cover a wide range of topics in linguistics and stylistics, including lexical and syntactic meaning, semantic change, phatic communication, prosodic meaning, multimodality, and pragmatic processes involved in reading, writing and evaluating texts. His publications include Relevance Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation , co-edited with Kate Scott and Robyn Carston (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Pragmatics and Literature , co-edited with Siobhan Chapman (John Benjamins, in press).

Catherine Emmott is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow. Her publications include Narrative Comprehension: A Discourse Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1997), Mind, Brain and Narrative (with Anthony J. Sanford, Cambridge University Press, 2012) and articles on cognitive stylistics, anaphora and rhetorical manipulation in detective fiction.

Christiana Gregoriou is Associate Professor in English language at the University of Leeds. She researches in (critical) stylistics and crime writing. Most notable are her three monographs: Crime Fiction Migration: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media (Bloomsbury, 2017); Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives (Routledge, 2011); and Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2007).

Laura Hidalgo-Downing is Associate Professor at the Universidad Autnoma of Madrid. Her research interests include discourse analysis, metaphor and stylistics. She has co-edited the Special Issue on Metaphorical Creativity Across Modes ( Metaphor in the Social World , 2013) and is co-author of Persuading People: An Introduction to Rhetoric (third edition, 2014).

Marina Lambrou is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Kingston University. Her research and publications are mainly on personal narratives including trauma narratives; narratology and disnarration; and literary, non-literary and media stylistics. Marinas publications include Disnarration and the Unmentioned in Fact and Fiction (Palgrave, 2019) and Contemporary Stylistics (co-edited with Peter Stockwell, Continuum, 2010). She is the current chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA).

Andrea Macrae is Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. She is a stylistician, specializing in deixis and the language of charity fundraising communications. She has recently published Discourse Deixis in Metafiction (Routledge, 2019) and the co-edited collection Pronouns in Literature: Positions and Perspectives in Language (Palgrave, 2018).

Roco Montoro is Senior Lecturer at the University of Granada. She co-authored Key Terms in Stylistics (with Nina Nrgaard and Beatrix Busse) and authored Chick Lit: The Stylistics of Cappuccino Fiction . She is Assistant Editor of Language and Literature and co-editor (with Paul Simpson) of the book series Language, Style and Literature .

Nina Nrgaard is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research interests lie within the fields of stylistics, multimodality, multimodal stylistics, critical discourse analysis and the semiotics of typography. Her publications include Key Terms in Stylistics (2010; with B. Busse and R. Montoro) and Multimodal Stylistics of the Novel: More than Words (Routledge, 2019).

Jeremy Scott writes and researches at the border between language and literary studies. His current interests are in fictional technique, the relationship between narratives and identity, the language of improvised theatre, and stylistics-based approaches to creative writing and creativity in general. As well as his own fiction, he has published on narrative technique in contemporary British and Irish writing, representations of dialect in fiction, travel literature, creative writing and the stylistics of drama. He is the author of Creative Writing and Stylistics (Macmillan, 2014) and The Demotic Voice in Contemporary British Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).