Foreword xxii
Preface to the second edition xxiv
Acknowledgements xxvi
Publisher’s acknowledgements xxvii
Introduction 1
PART ONE: APPROACHES AND METHODS
1 Style and choice 9
2 Style, text and frequency 34
3 A method of analysis and some examples 60
4 Levels of style 95
PART TWO: ASPECTS OF STYLE
5 Language and the fictional world 121
6 Mind style 150
7 The rhetoric of text 168
8 Discourse and the discourse situation 206
9 Conversation in the novel 231
10 Speech and thought presentation 255
11 Stylistics and fiction 25 years on 282
12 ‘The Bucket and the Rope’ 305
Passages and topics for further study 344
Further reading 369
Bibliography 381
Index of works discussed 395
General index 397
