Hugo Bowles is professor of English at the University of Foggia in southern Italy and publishes in applied linguistics and language education. His recent work focuses on stylistics and linguistic approaches to literature and his monograph Storytelling and Drama: Exploring narrative episodes in plays, published by John Benjamin in 2010, was awarded the 2012 Book Prize for Linguistics by the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).

• Prologue 1: Gurney and Sons 2: The Devil's Handwriting 3: Despotic Reading 4: The Stenographic Mind 5: Reporting 6: PKWK 7: Plays of the Pen 8: Stenographic Literacy Epilogue

This exciting suggestion is one that I hope Bowles will pursue on a larger scale in a later work.

Hugo Bowles is professor of English at the University of Foggia in southern Italy and publishes in applied linguistics and language education. His recent work focuses on stylistics and linguistic approaches to literature and his monograph Storytelling and Drama: Exploring narrative episodes in plays, published by John Benjamin in 2010, was awarded the 2012 Book Prize for Linguistics by the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).

• Prologue 1: Gurney and Sons 2: The Devil's Handwriting 3: Despotic Reading 4: The Stenographic Mind 5: Reporting 6: PKWK 7: Plays of the Pen 8: Stenographic Literacy Epilogue

This exciting suggestion is one that I hope Bowles will pursue on a larger scale in a later work.

Hugo Bowles is professor of English at the University of Foggia in southern Italy and publishes in applied linguistics and language education. His recent work focuses on stylistics and linguistic approaches to literature and his monograph Storytelling and Drama: Exploring narrative episodes in plays, published by John Benjamin in 2010, was awarded the 2012 Book Prize for Linguistics by the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).

• Prologue 1: Gurney and Sons 2: The Devil's Handwriting 3: Despotic Reading 4: The Stenographic Mind 5: Reporting 6: PKWK 7: Plays of the Pen 8: Stenographic Literacy Epilogue

This exciting suggestion is one that I hope Bowles will pursue on a larger scale in a later work.