Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language : In Memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015).

Intro -- Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- An indicative list of publications by Walter Nash -- Chapter 1. "Warmth of thought" in Walter Nash's prose and verse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The poetry -- 3. The prose -- 4. Calor cogitationis in action -- References -- Chapter 2. Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics -- 1. Literature and linguistics -- 2. Stylistics and some familiar objections -- 3. Updating the stylistic analysis -- 4. Towards a stylistics of subliminal effects -- References -- Chapter 3. The doubling of design in Walter Nash's Rhetoric: The wit of persuasion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rhetoric, basically defined -- 3. A complication in the definition, a problem in the theory -- 4. Power in parody -- 5. Diagrammatic taxis -- 6. "And Jim Acosta Joins Us Now": Diagrammatic taxis at CNN -- 7. Conclusion: Design within design = "observing ourselves, while acting" -- References -- Chapter 4. Riddling: The dominant rhetorical device in W. H. Auden's "The Wanderer" -- 1. A preliminary reading -- 2. Discussion: Style and tone -- 2.1 Text, context, discourse -- 2.2 Metrical and rhetorical devices in Old and Middle English literature -- 3. The Anglo-Saxon riddles and poems in the Exeter book -- 4. Poetry and play in the Exeter Book riddles -- References -- Chapter 5. "My Shakespeare, rise": Ben Jonson's pronominal choices in "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author" (1623) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jonson and Shakespeare's antagonistic friendship -- 3. The First Folio preliminary matter -- 4. The rhetorical fabric of Jonson's eulogy -- 5. Pronominal density and possessive pronouns -- 6. Coda -- References -- Appendix.

Chapter 6. Discourse presentation and point of view in "Cheating at Canasta" by William Trevor -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The text -- 2. Stylistic analysis -- 2.1 Textual proportions devoted to external narration, speech presentation and a combination of internal narration and thought presentation. -- 2.2 Speech presentation -- 2.3 Viewpoint, internal text-world variation and thought presentation -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 7. Doing and teaching: From Kettle of Roses to Language and Creative Illusion and back again -- 1. Creative writing, Q.E.D. -- 2. Edna Pugh: A life in letters -- 3. Beginnings and endings -- 4. Creating an illusion -- 5. An emotional peak at the close of Kettle of Roses? -- References -- Chapter 8. Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The plot: Spoiler alert! -- 3. What is the book really (sic) about? -- 4. The intertext -- 5. The lists -- 6. Factual worlds and fictional worlds -- 7. What is this chapter really about? -- 8. Searle: A pragmatic approach? -- 9. Eco: A semantic approach? -- 10. Searle and Eco (and Gabriel) -- 11. Ordinary readers -- 12. Professional critics -- 13. On the ethical status of fictional discourse -- 14. In lieu of a conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9. Common Language: Corpus, creativity and cognition -- 1. Introduction: Writing and literary language? -- 2. CANCODE data -- 2.1 Punning and playing -- 2.2 Morphological inventiveness: New words for old -- 2.3 Echoing and converging -- 2.4 Pattern-reforming and pattern-reinforcing -- 2.5 Summary -- 3. Literary language: A brief history of definitions -- 3.1 Inherency models -- deviation theory and self-referentiality -- 3.2 Socio-cultural models -- 3.3 Cognitive models -- 4. All language is literary language -- 4.1 Pleasure and verbal play: Risks and rewards -- 4.2 More CANCODE data.

5. Developing a socio-psychological aesthetics -- 6. Questions for research: Linguistic and literary theory -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10. "Americans don't do Irony": Cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology: "Six Little Stories in Need of a Response" -- 3. Results and discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix 1. Questionnaire (First Page) -- Questionnaire -- Defunct address -- Name index -- Subject index.

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