In:Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods
Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 36] 2021
► pp. 1–20
Chapter 1
Responding to style
Published online: 8 February 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36.01bel
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.36.01bel
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Stylistics and the reader
- 3.Minds
- 4.Media
- 5.Methods
- 6.Conclusion
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