Taking a poem to pieces / John Sinclair -- Stylistics / David Lodge -- Linguistic function and literary style : an inquiry into the language of William Golding's The inheritors / M.A.K. Halliday -- On the deviance of literary discourse / Henry Widdowson -- Language, linguistics and literary analysis / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Mary Louise Pratt -- Linguistic criticism / Roger Fowler -- Metre / Geoffrey Leech -- Discourse analysis and drama / Mick Short -- Poem, reader, response : making sense with Skunk hour / Michael Toolan -- Style and interpretation in Hemingway's 'Cat in the rain' / Ronald Carter -- Changing the guard at Elsinore / Walter Nash -- But what is literature? : toward a descriptive definition of literature / Willie van Peer -- Deixis and the poetic persona / Keith Green -- Bakhtin, addressivity, and the poetics of objectivity / Alison Tate -- Teach yourself rhetoric : an analysis of Philip Larkin's Church going / Katie Wales -- World enough and time : deictic space and the interpretation of prose / Paul Werth -- Making the subtle difference : literature and non-literature in the classroom / Guy Cook -- Educating the reader : narrative technique and evaluation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland / Jean Jacques Weber -- Satirical humour and cultural context : with a note on the curious case of Father Todd Unctuous / Paul Simpson -- )Sur(real stylistics : from text to contextualizing / Peter Stockwell -- Feeling moved by metaphor / Ray W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Point of view in drama : a socio-pragmatic analysis of Dennis Potter's Brimstone and treacle / Dan McIntyre -- Conrad in the computer : examples of quantitative stylistic methods / Michael Stubbs -- 'Split selves' in fiction and in medical 'life stories' : cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice / Catherine Emmott -- Too much blague? : an explanation of the text worlds of Donald Barthelme's Snow White / Joanna Gavins -- A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction / Elena Semino -- Connectives in free indirect style : continuity or shift? / Violeta Sotirova -- Stylistics : retrospect and prospect / Ronald Carter and Peter Stockwell.