Michael Burke is Professor of Rhetoric at University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University. He is the author of Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind (Routledge, 2011), and a co-author of Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition: Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts (Routledge, 2022).

• IntroductionStylistics: From classical rhetoric to cognitive neurosciencePART 1Historical perspectives in stylistics1. Rhetoric and poetics: The classical heritage of stylistics2. Formalist stylistics3. Functionalist stylistics4. Reader response criticism and stylisticsPART IICore issues in stylistics5. The linguistic levels of foregrounding in stylistics6. (New) historical stylistics7.Stylistics, speech acts and im/politeness theory8. Stylistics, conversation analysis and the cooperative principle9. Stylistics and relevance theory10. Stylistics, point of view and modality11. Stylistics and narratology12. Metaphor and stylistics13. Speech and thought presentation in stylisticsPART IIIContemporary topics in stylistics14. Pedagogical stylistics15. Stylistics, drama and performance16. Schema theory in stylistics17. Stylistics and text world theory18. Stylistics and cognitive grammar19. Cognitive poetics20. Quantitative methodological approaches to stylistics21. Feminist stylistics22. Literary pragmatics and stylistics23. Corpus stylistics24. Stylistics and translation25.Critical stylisticsPART IVEmerging and future trends in stylistics26. Creative writing and stylistics27. Stylistics and real readers28. Stylistics and film29. Multimodality and stylistics30. Forensic stylistics31. Stylistics and Children’s Literature32. A corpus stylistics Approach to mental health33. Stylistics, emotion and neuroscienceIndex

"The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics offers a wide-ranging and practical resource for students and researchers of the subject. Each chapter is engagingly written and covers a key topic in contemporary stylistics. A must-have guide to the study of language and style."Professor Joanna Gavins, Chair in English Language and Literature, School of English, University of Sheffield, UKPraise for the first edition"This is an indispensable beginner’s guide to stylistics, packed full of practical advice and demonstrating the breadth of the discipline in its coverage of everything from the origin of stylistics in classical rhetoric to current advances in cognitive neuroscience."Professor Dan McIntyre, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Department of English, Uppsala University, Sweden