The Stylistics of Landscapes. The Landscapes of Stylistics.
What is it about?
The book aims to present advanced linguistic methods of analysing texts which deal with not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits, and the results obtained from such methods. Methodologies adopted include stylistics, narratology, cognitive linguistics, ecostylistics, computational stylistics
Why is it important?
First of all range: a wide range of methods, (including innovative chapters on ecostylistics), a wide range of literary texts, including non-canonical or not widely-known and analysed texts, over a range of cultures (American, Bengali, English, Flemish, Hungarian, Russian, Scottish), deep social concern manifested both by the propositional content of the texts analysed and the social and cultural issues brought out by the analysis, an emphasis on thought and emotion, its link to society and culture, and on mental processing.