Pragmatic Literary Stylistics

1. Introduction: Pragmatic Literary Stylistics
Siobhan Chapman, Billy Clark

2. The Art of Repetition in Muriel Spark’s Telling
Andrew Caink

3. ‘Oh, do let’s talk about something else-’: What Is Not Said and What Is Implicated in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September
Siobhan Chapman

4. Before and After Chekhov: Inference, Interpretation and Evaluation
Billy Clark

5. Outsourcing: A Relevance-Theoretic Account of the Interpretation of Theatrical Texts
Anne Furlong

6. Relevance Theory, Syntax and Literary Narrative
Barbara MacMahon

7. Negation, Expectation and Characterisation: Analysing the Role of Negation in Character Construction in To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee 1960) and Stark (Elton 1989)
Lisa Nahajec

8. Intertextuality and the Pragmatics of Literary Reading
Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou

9. ’I’ve never enjoyed hating a book so much in my life’: The Co-Construction of Identity in the Reading Group
David Peplow

10. The Narrative Tease: Narratorial Omniscience, Implicature and the Making of Sensation in Lady Audley’s Secret
Ruth Schuldiner

11. Literature as Discourse and Dialogue: Rapport Management (Facework) in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s ‘Blackeye and His Donkey’
Chantelle Warner

Nyckelord: Literature, Literary Theory, Literacy, Pragmatics, Stylistics