Cambridge Elements in Stylistics aims to showcase innovative and significant research in contemporary stylistics. The series will feature concise and up-to-date treatments of key areas and topics and constitute a library that students and scholars working in stylistics and related disciplines can consult for their own work.
The Series will feature Elements in key areas, including but not limited to
- cognitive stylistics
- corpus stylistics
- stylistics in applied contexts (e.g. education, law, health, business)
- treatments and studies of linguistic phenomena within a stylistics methodology (e.g. foregrounding, speech and thought presentation, deixis, metaphor, transitivity relations, text-worlds)
- treatments and studies of literary phenomena within a stylistics methodology (e.g. characterisation, narrative voice, atmosphere, tone, ambience)
- empirical studies that integrate textual analysis with reader response or corpus data to investigate the interpretative effects of texts on readers.
In keeping with the dual intensive focus on research and pedagogy which has typified stylistics over the years, we will ensure that each Element presents outstanding research whilst at the same time maintaining an accessible writing style to provide a useful resource for students, and scholars.
The series also benefits from the innovative online platform provided by Cambridge University Press, which includes the ability to host videos, data sets, and other interactive content.
Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics and Co-Director of the Aston Stylistics Research Group at Aston University, UK. He has research interests in cognitive poetics, the stylistics of poetry, empirical literary studies, stylistics in education, and health humanities. He is the author of thirteen books including four major research monographs, and over forty peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited collections in stylistics. He previously edited the collections Knowing About Language (Routledge, 2016), New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Teaching Language and Literature 16-19 (Routledge 2021), and series edited the nine volume Cambridge Key Topics in English Language (Cambridge University Press). He is the editor of Siegfried’s Journal (the journal of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship), Associate Editor of the journals English Studies (Taylor and Francis) and English in Education (Taylor and Francis) and sits on the editorial board of Journal of Literary Semantics (De Gruyter).
Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature and Co-Director of the Aston Stylistics Research Group at Aston University, UK. where she researches in cognitive stylistics, re-reading, empirical reader studies and contemporary fiction. She has published extensively in these areas, with notable recent projects including the article ‘99 ways to re-tell a story’ in the international journal Style (Penn State University Press 2023), the co-edited collection New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style (Bloomsbury 2020), and a research monograph on The Language of Margaret Atwood (Palgrave, forthcoming 2024). She regularly reviews book proposals for leading publishers and research papers for international journals in stylistics, narrative studies and cognitive linguistics, including Language and Literature (Sage), the Journal of Literary Semantics (De Gruyter), Narrative Inquiry (John Benjamins), among others.
Editorial Board
Dr Alison Gibbons, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Dr Urszula Kizelbach, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Dr Clara Neary, University of Chester, UK
Dr Julie Neveux, Sorbonne University, France
Dr Eirini Panagiotidou, West Chester University, USA
Dr Helen Ringrow, University of Portsmouth, UK
Professor Eleonora Sasso, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Dr Jeremy Scott, University of Kent, UK
Professor Sandrine Sorlin, Paul Valéry-Montpellier University, France
Professor Sven Strasen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dr M'Balia Thomas, University of Arizona, USA
Dr Elisabetta Zurru, University of Genoa, Italy