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replicable
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Widdowson’s influential and highly readable book on stylistics includes a
revealing analysis of Robert Frost’s poem ‘Dust of Snow’, with semantic
patterning at the fore of the analysis (Widdowson 1975: 38ff).
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Other stylistic work focussed specifically on e e cummings includes Simpson
(1997a: 44ff) and van Peer (1987).
SENTENCE STYLES: DEVELOPMENT AND ILLUSTRATION
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Leech and Short (1981) contains a number of detailed analyses of prose fiction
which pay particular attention to patterns of grammar. A number of the papers
collected in both Carter (1982) and Verdonk (1993a) also offer accessible explo-
rations of style and grammar.
INTERPRETING PATTERNS OF SOUND
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Attridge (1988) has a chapter which explores in depth many of the issues raised
in this unit, while Nash (1986) is an article which looks at the problems involved
in teaching sound symbolism in a stylistic context. Montgomery 
et al
(1992:
86–9) contains a useful short section on the problems associated with inter-
preting sound patterns in poetry.
DEVELOPMENTS IN STRUCTURAL NARRATOLOGY
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Toolan has applied Propp’s categories to a passage from Joyce’s short story
‘Eveline’ (2001: 17–22), and this analysis, along with his general development of
this model of narrative structure, is accessible and informative. See also Durant
and Fabb (1990:182–6) for a useful explication of Propp’s model.
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STYLE AND TRANSITIVITY
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Simpson (1993: 86–118) contains an application of an admittedly older version
of the model of transitivity, along with a more detailed review of the Fish-
Halliday debate than has been attempted here. Toolan (1998: 75–104) provides
a useful outline of the transitivity model and offers for analysis an intriguing
passage from J. M. Coetzee’s novel 
Life & Times of Michael K
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Halliday’s and Fish’s papers have been usefully gathered together in two 
collections of articles in stylistics, D. Freeman (1981) and Weber (1996). A more
recent study of Golding’s 
The Inheritors
, offering an extensive exploration of
transitivity, is Hoover (1999). Hoover’s book takes Halliday’s work in many 
new directions and it is also a further illustration of the principal of ‘replica-
bility’ in stylistic method (A1). Both Shen (1988) and Toolan (1990) are two of
the many good ripostes to Fish that have been written by stylisticians over 
the years.
APPROACHES TO POINT OF VIEW
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The four-way account of point of view is from Uspensky (1973) with summaries
and adaptations in Fowler (1996).
TECHNIQUES OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT
PRESENTATION
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Again, full surveys of speech and thought presentation can be found in Leech and
Short (1981) and Short (1996). Fludernik (1993) is a more advanced monograph-
length study which includes substantial treatment of speech and thought pre-
sentation. Article length publications include a debate on the topic played out
between Simpson (1997b) and Short 
et al
(1997).
DIALOGUE IN DRAMA
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Simpson (1998) develops in more detail the idea of incongruity as a feature of
the absurd in drama. This essay also connects incongruity to theories of humour
(see also unit A12). Tan (1998) offers advice on how to write a stylistic analysis
of drama dialogue. In no way a definitive guide to the writing of essays in
stylistics, Tan’s paper nonetheless contains a number of useful suggestions about
how to organise a response to a passage of play dialogue. Another version of
Burton’s structural model of discourse, with a more pedagogical-stylistic
emphasis, can be found in Burton (1982b).
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DEVELOPMENTS IN COGNITIVE STYLISTICS
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In addition to the references posted throughout this unit, useful theoretical
context for cognitive stylistics is provided by Steen and Gavins (2003), Stockwell
(2000) and (2003), and by the editors’ foreword in Semino and Culpeper (2002).
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Another important cognitive-stylistic model, which complements usefully those
outlined here, is provided in Semino’s study of ‘world creation’ in poetry and
other texts (Semino 1997). Jeffries (2001) and Semino (2001) form two sides of
a provocative and entertaining debate about the usefulness for stylistic analysis
of schema theory and related concepts in cognitive linguistics.
STYLES OF METAPHOR
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A special issue of the journal