This classic text has been substantially rewritten. Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives.
This classic text has been substantially rewritten to incorporate recent developments in theory and new technologies, and to make it more usable as a course book.
This collection of original research highlights the legacy of Michael Toolan's pioneering contributions to the field of stylistics and in so doing provides a critical overview of the ways in which language, text, and context are analyzed in ...
Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of human activity.
An activity based introduction to literary stylistics, this book explains some of the core topics in literary linguistics and assists students in literary analysis.
Through a detailed analysis of one text, Toolan considers whether style is a linguistic topic or a topic in the literary criticism and appreciation of a text.
This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader s forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close.
1 First Steps in Integrating Lexical Patterning and the 'Pictured' Narrative Situation