31.66, Books: Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction: Sorlin (ed.)

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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:11:29
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction: Sorlin (ed.)

 


Title: Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction 
Series Title: Advances in Stylistics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/stylistic-manipulation-of-the-reader-in-contemporary-fiction-9781350062962/ 


Editor: Sandrine Sorlin

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350062986 Pages: 264 Price: U.K. £ 102.60 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350062979 Pages: 264 Price: U.K. £ 102.60 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350062962 Pages: 264 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

This book focuses on how readers can be 'manipulated' during their experience
of reading fictional texts and how they are incited to perceive, process and
interpret certain textual patterns. Offering fine-grained stylistic analysis
of diverse genres, including crime fiction, short stories, poetry and novels,
the book deciphers various linguistic, pragmatic and multimodal techniques.
These are skillfully used by authors to achieve specific effects through a
subtle manipulation of deixis, metalepsis, dialogue, metaphors, endings,
inferences or rhetorical, narratorial and typographical control.

Exploring contemporary texts such as "The French Lieutenant's Woman, The
Remains of the Day" and "We Need to Talk About Kevin", chapters delve into how
readers are pragmatically positioned or cognitively (mis)directed as the
author guides their attention and influences their judgment. They also show
how readers' responses can, conversely, bring about a certain form of
manipulation as readers challenge the positions the texts invite them to
occupy.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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