The stylistic construction of verbal imagery in poetry: shooting distance and resolution in Wilfred Owen, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin .

The year’s work in stylistics 2020

“…Beckett is also the subject of an article by Li (2020), examining the use of the middle voice in the plays Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) and Ohio Impromptu (1981). Alongside novels and plays, poetry has also been examined in detail by narrative theorists this year, for example by Wolf (2020), who argues for the development of ‘lyrology’ to differentiate poetry from other narrative forms, and by Castiglione (2020) in an article which sets out a stylistic model for the analysis of verbal imagery, analysing poetry from Wilfred Owen, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin. Work in narrative in 2020 was also interested, in a range of ways, in the role of the reader.…”