Clara Neary

List of John Benjamins publications in which Clara Neary is involved.

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Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson

Edited by Clara Neary, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell

Practising Stylistics marks the career of Professor Paul Simpson, a leading figure in the discipline of stylistics, and one who embodies the practical and rigorous linguistic analysis of literary works and social discourse. A prominent figure in the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) since… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 45] 2026. xv, 285 pp. + index

Neary, Clara 2026 Chapter 15: Vignette. Point of view and modality in Brian Friel’s ‘The Diviner’ Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 190–199 | Chapter

Applying Simpson’s influential model of modal grammar of point of view, in this chapter Clara Neary analyses the largely unexplored prose fiction of Irish playwright Brian Friel. By comprehensively charting and interpreting the narrative modes in the short story ‘The Diviner’ (from 1962), Neary… read more

Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell 2026 Introduction: Practising Stylistics Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Chapter

Neary, Clara 2018 Charteris-Black, J. (2017). Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority  Metaphor and the Social World 8:2, pp. 319–325 | Review

Neary, Clara 2017 “Truth is like a vast tree”: Metaphor use in Gandhi’s autobiographical narration Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality, Pihlaja, Stephen (ed.), pp. 103–121 | Article

This article focuses on Gandhi’s use of biblical metaphor in the English translation of his autobiography “The Story of My Experiments with Truth” (1940). The aim of the analysis is to show how Gandhi appropriated Christian ideology to his own life story when presenting it to an English-speaking… read more

Neary, Clara 2014 Chapter 8. Profiling the flight of ‘The Windhover’ Cognitive Grammar in Literature, Harrison, Chloe, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan (eds.), pp. 119–132 | Article