In:Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021)
Edited by Michael Burke and Joanna Gavins
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 44] 2025
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 8 May 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.44.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.44.toc
Table of contents
IntroductionMarking the stylist from the style: The influential scholarly work of Peter Verdonk
1
Michael Burke
Chapter 1.Style in its contexts: The case of John Donne
6
Peter Stockwell
Chapter 2.Reconstructing Kath: Memory, bereaved mind styles and plot manipulation in Penelope Lively’s The Photograph
21
Catherine Emmott
Chapter 3.Motivation and textual meaning in the stylistics of poetry: “Dulce et Decorum Est”
45
Lesley Jeffries
Chapter 4.Stylistics and motivated choice in Seamus Heaney’s “Orange Drums”
68
Mick Short
Chapter 5.“Truth is ugly”: Style, structure and tone in “Swansong”
80
Dan McIntyre
Chapter 6.Where owls nest in beards: Making sense of Edward Lear’s Books of Nonsense
93
Katie Wales
Chapter 7.Mechanical inelasticity in discourse: A Bergsonian perspective on dialogue, humour and style
114
Paul Simpson
Chapter 8.Cognition and the creative interplay of word and image in Apollinaire’s “Il Pleut”
130
Joanna Gavins
Chapter 9.Verbal pickles and pickling: A stylistic engagement with Sinéad Morrissey’s “Through the Square Window”, with help from Philip Larkin and Peter
Verdonk
148
Michael Toolan
Chapter 10.Bob Dylan’s world of words: Beginning to map the linguistic terrain
159
Gerard Steen
Afterword
181
Sonia Zyngier
Index
189
