Introduction; D.McIntyre & B.Busse.- PART I: PRELIMINARIES.- Analysing Literature Through Language; G.Leech.- Recent Trends in New Historical Stylistics; B.Busse.- Methodologies for Stylistic Analysis: Practices and Pedagogies; R.Carter.- PART II: THE STYLISTICS OF POETRY.- The Stylistics of Poetry: Walter de la Mare's 'The Listeners'; K.Wales.- Foregrounding; W.van Peer.- A Cognitive Stylistic Reading of Rhetorical Patterns in Ted Hughes's 'Hawk Roosting'; P.Verdonk.- 'The Unprofessionals': Syntactic Iconicity and Reader Interpretation in Contemporary Poems; L.Jeffries.- Text Worlds in Poetry; E.Semino.- Public House Confidence: The Indispensability of Sound Patterns; T.Barney.- PART III: THE STYLISTICS OF DRAMA.- The Stylistics of Drama: Universal Elements; M.Munkelt.- Dialogue and Characterisation in Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs': A Corpus Stylistic Analysis; D.McIntyre.- 'See Better, Lear?' See Lear Better! A Corpus-Based Pragma-Stylistic Investigation of Shakespeare's King Lear; D.Bousfield & D.Archer.- Activity Types, Incongruity and Humour in Dramatic Discourse; D.McIntyre & J.Culpepper.- PART IV: THE STYLISTICS OF NARRATIVE FICTION.- The Stylistics of Narrative Fiction; D.Shen.- Authorial Style; D.Hoover.- 2D and 3D Visualization of Stance in Popular Fiction; L.L.Opas-Hänninen & T.Seppänen.- Point of View; P.Simpson.- The Intrinsic Importance of Sentence-Type and Clause-Type to Narrative Effect: Or, How Alice Munro's 'Circle of Prayer' Gets Started; M.Toolan.- Detective Fiction, Plot Construction and Reader Manipulation: Rhetorical Control and Cognitive Misdirection in Agatha Christie's 'Sparkling Cyanide'; C.Emmott & M.Alexander.- Narration and Metaphor; M.Fludernik.- Wmatrix, Key-Concepts and the Narrators in Julian Barnes' 'Talking it Over'; B.Walker.- Writing Presentation, The Epistolary Novel and Free Indirect Thought; J.Bray.- 'Appeased By The Certitude': The Quiet Disintegration of the Paranoid Mind in 'The Mustache'; J.Gavins.- The Eleventh Checksheet of the Apocalypse; P.Stockwell.- Multimodality: Extending the Stylistic Toolkit; N.Norgaard.- Corpus Approaches to Narrative Fiction; M.Mahlberg.- Stylistics, Linguistics and Literature: A Short Afterword; G.Hall.- References.- Index.