Mick Short
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mick Short is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2210-4372 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4380
Book series
2025 Chapter 4. Stylistics and motivated choice in Seamus Heaney’s “Orange Drums” Style as Motivated Choice: In memory of Peter Verdonk (1934–2021), Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins (eds.), pp. 68–79 | Chapter
In this chapter I will perform a stylistic analysis of “Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966” by Seamus Heaney, one of Peter Verdonk’s favourite poets (cf. his discussions of poems by Heaney in Verdonk 1993: 57–65 and Verdonk 2002). I will mainly indulge in what has sometimes been called “steam… read more
2019 Chapter 6. Discourse presentation and point of view in “Cheating at Canasta” by
William Trevor Style, Rhetoric and Creativity in Language: In memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015), Simpson, Paul (ed.), pp. 101–112 | Chapter
This chapter examines the closing section of William Trevor’s
short story, “Cheating at Canasta”
(2007). Focussing on shifts in narrative viewpoint in the
passage, the chapter teases out the complex transitions in viewpoint
features, showing how Mallory, the story’s… read more
2017 Chapter 3. Listing and impressionism in Charles Dickens’s description of Genoa in Pictures from Italy The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics, Douthwaite, John, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru (eds.), pp. 31–44 | Chapter
This chapter examines a subset of representative list constructions in Dickens’s description of Genoa. Such constructions comprise nearly 20% of the text and those examined in detail are varied in type, long, complex and contain significant deviations from the norm. This linguistic complexity is… read more
2016 Chapter 10. Stylistics and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W.B. Yeats Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 195–212 | Article
This chapter will provide a detailed stylistic analysis of ‘He Wishes for the
Cloths of Heaven’ by W. B. Yeats. The analysis will combine of a range of analytical
methods, most of which will be of the ‘good old steam stylistics’ variety, as
Ron Carter has called them, e.g. lexical, grammatical and… read more
2009 Review of Holt & Clift (2007): Reporting talk: Reported speech in interaction Functions of Language 16:2, pp. 309–314 | Review
2008 7. Evaluation and stylistic analysis The Quality of Literature: Linguistic studies in literary evaluation, Peer, Willie van (ed.), pp. 117–137 | Article