"Style and stories. Contemporary stylistics and narrativity", Fictions. Studi sulla narratività, XVI.

The present volume of Fictions intends to account for the very multiplicity of perspectives and approaches which contemporary Stylistics welcomes in Narrative Stylistics, both as regards current thinking in this particular branch of Stylistics and by means of practical samples of stylistic analysis of narrative texts. Contents: DONATELLA MONTINI, Preface. Stylistics Reloaded: Tradition and Prospects of an Impure Discipline; GIUSEPPINA BALOSSI, A Corpus-aided Approach to the Language of the Interludes in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves ; HUGO BOWLES, Hybrid Quotation Forms in Dickens; DANIELE BORGOGNI, «Revelling in dissolving views»: Conceptual Integration and Blending in Ford’s Mister Bosphorus and the Muses; MARGHERITA DORE, Narrative Strategies and Mind Style in Emma Donoghue’s Room; CHIARA DEGANO, Stylistics and Argumentation: Exploring Reasoning Presentation in McEwan’s The Children Act; SALVADOR ALARCON-HERMOSILLA, Fictive Motion in John McGahern. Light and Nature in The Dark; MASSIMILIANO MORINI, Bombers and Terrorists: The Stylistics of News Stories; DONATELLA MONTINI, ELENA SEMINO, Afterword. Ten Questions about Contemporary Stylistics