• 1. What is stylistics?: 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Defining stylistics; 1.3. Why stylistics?; 1.4. Principles of stylistics; 2. Developing a stylistics toolkit: 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Foregrounding; 2.3. Using levels of language analysis; 2.4. Words; 2.5. Structure; 2.6. Sounds; 2.7. Developing writing as a response; 3. Doing stylistics: 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Speech and thought presentation; 3.3. Modality; 3.4. Transitivity; 3.5. Deixis and viewpoint; 4. Stylistics and the mind: 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Figure and ground; 4.3. Schema theory; 4.4. Metaphor; 4.5. Text World Theory; 5. Exploring stylistics: 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Creative writing and stylistics; 5.3. Reader response studies and stylistics; 5.4. Corpus stylistics; Ideas and answers; References.

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