“…The title of this symposium, ‘Style in Fiction Today’, is also the title of the special issue of Études de Stylistique Anglaise (Jobert et al, 2013) that arose from the meeting. This packed issue includes a wide variety of work on such topics as mind style (Mallier, 2013; Pillière, 2013), short fiction (Toolan, 2013), rhetoric (Hamilton, 2013), reader involvement (Jobert-Martini, 2013), corpus stylistics (Leech, 2013; McIntyre, 2013a), poetry (Jeffries, 2013), drama (Jobert, 2013), discourse presentation (Short, 2013), pragmatics (Gay, 2013) and general aspects of style (Majola-Leblond, 2013; Mounié, 2013; Rinzler, 2013). The contributions of Leech and Short to the issue are representative of their respective research trajectories since the publication of Style in Fiction .…”