Chapter published in:
Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)Edited by Paul Simpson
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 34] 2019
► pp. 37–56
Chapter 2Chrysanthemums for Bill
On Lawrentian style and stylistics
Peter Stockwell | Nottingham University
This chapter on a short story by D. H. Lawrence revisits a
key stylistic account of the text by Bill Nash, which was criticised both
specifically and as a general representation of stylistic practice. The
chapter addresses those criticisms, differentiating those that are misplaced
from those that might have had a reasonable basis. It claims that many of
these older objections can be addressed by more recent innovations in the
discipline, and in fact that Nash prefigured some later literary
linguistics, though he lacked the tools to develop his solutions at the
time. In this analysis, these innovations are drawn from the broadening of
stylistics to encompass matters that would previously have been regarded as
extra-linguistic, in the form of a cognitive poetics.
Keywords: D. H. Lawrence, viewpoint, texture, resonance, subliminal effects, attractor, critical theory
Article outline
- 1.Literature and linguistics
- 2.Stylistics and some familiar objections
- 3.Updating the stylistic analysis
- 4.Towards a stylistics of subliminal effects
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References
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.34.04sto
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.34.04sto
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