Teaching Stylistics

This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on the key pedagogical issues behind the teaching of stylistics. Featuring contributions from authors based in the UK, Europe and overseas, it offers an international overview of how stylistics is currently taught and how the teaching of the discipline might be developed in the future. The volume is divided into two main sections, dealing respectively with larger theoretical issues in the teaching of stylistics and examples of classroom practice and detailed text analysis. In addition, the appendices provide an overview of the history of stylistics in the form of a timeline, short biographies of significant figures in the field and substantial lists of further reading. Teaching Stylistics will be of value to postgraduates new to teaching as well as established teachers, particularly those working at the interface between language and literary studies.

LESLEY JEFFRIES is Professor of English Language at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She was recently the Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and is co-editor (with Dan McIntyre) of the Perspectives on the English Language (PEL) series for Palgrave. She is the author of a number of books, including Critical Stylistics (in the PEL series), Textual Construction of the Female Body (Palgrave 2007) and Opposition in Discourse (Continuum 2010). She and Dan McIntyre have recently published Stylistics (C.U.P.)which is an overview of the state of the art of this field.

DAN MCINTYRE is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where he teaches courses in stylistics, corpus linguistics and the history of the English language. Among his publications are Point of View in Plays (John Benjamins, 2006), the co-edited Stylistics and Social Cognition (Rodopi, 2007), History of English (Routledge, 2009), the co-authored Stylistics (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and the co-edited Language and Style (Palgrave, 2010). He is series editor for Continuum's Advances in Stylistics series, co-series editor for Perspectives on the English Language (Palgrave) and Reviews Editor for the journal Language and Literature.