Literary Forensics: Fingerprinting the Literary Dialects of Three Works of Plantation Fiction

Leigh, Philip

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“…It is also the case that stylistics has practical value for other disciplines too. Leigh (2012), for instance, describes a 'literary forensic' approach to fingerprinting the literary dialects of three works of plantation fiction, clearly demonstrating how stylistics can be of value to literary critics beyond offering interpretative insights into texts. Jeffries and Walker (2012), on the other hand, show how stylistics can be of value to cultural critics, political scientists and (even) spin doctors, in their analysis of keywords in British newspapers during the years of Tony Blair's premiership.…”

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“…All of the articles in the issue demonstrate how computational techniques can augment the analysis of literary texts. Some have been mentioned already (Lorang and Pytlik Zillig, 2012 and Leigh, 2012). The others comprise Brown et al (2012) on a geoparsing system for detailing the relationship between words and places in large corpora, Gailey (2012) on digital editing of multi-authored texts, Iorio (2012) on a variationist approach to form and meaning, McIntyre (2012) on prototypical characteristics of blockbuster movie dialogue, and Clement (2012) on narrative and composition in Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans .…”

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The year’s work in stylistics 2012

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Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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On to more life-affirming topics. It would seem that stylisticians do not need external pressures to produce outstanding work and 2012 was as productive a year as ever. Classic stylistics (in the sense of linguistic analyses of literature) was plentiful, offering insights into well-established texts and less well-known ones too. Examples of the former are Müller-Wood (2012) on emotion in Henry V, Saunders (2012) on Theory of Mind in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, 'The Minister's Black Veil', Mahlberg (2012a) on fictional worlds in Dickens, and Xu and Chang (2012) on Chinese-to-English poetry translation. Examples of the latter include Webster's (2012) analysis of Edwin Thumboo's 'A poet reading', Werner's ( 2012) corpus-based study of pop lyrics, and Mandala's (2012) demonstration of how point of view and dialect representation are used to counter current aggressive stereotypes of the urban poor in Sheila Quigley's Bad Moon Rising. There was also plenty of work engaging with new text-types and genres, as evidenced, for example, by Bray et al. (2012). Their edited collection, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, is not exclusively a volume on stylistics though it is good to see such an endeavour steered by stylisticians, and many of the chapters will be of interest to readers of Language and Literature. Gavins (2012), for instance, offers a chapter on the literary absurd, clearly a taster of what to expect from her forthcoming book on the subject. Other prominent stylisticians included in the book are Bray (2012; on concrete poetry), Ensslin (2012; on computer gaming), Gibbons (2012a, 2012b; on altermodernist fiction and multimodality), Ryan (2012; on impossible worlds) and Stockwell (2012a; on surrealism).Another significant contribution to our understanding of new forms of storytelling is Ruth Page's (2012) Stories and Social Media. Page notes that the rise of social media has led to an unprecedented surge in everyday storytelling, and that since stories are one of the ways in which we make sense of ourselves and our place in the world, we cannot afford to ignore these newly developing forms of interaction. The book will be welcomed by narratologists, particularly for offering an overview of storytelling practices on, among others, Facebook, blogs and Twitter. Barbara Dancygier's (2012) The Language of Stories deals with more traditional narrative texts but, like Page, she is interested in the nature of storytelling as a part of the human condition. Inevitably this leads to a consideration of the active role of the reader in storytelling, with considerable emphasis on blending theory and what this can reveal about the nature of stories. In her book Author Representations of Literary Reading, Eefje Claasen (2012) deals with a different aspect of stories to Dancygier, reasserting the

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Section: Applications Convergences and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%