Contemporary Stylistics

Contemporary Stylistics' presents the current state of the integrated study og language and literature. From its emergence as an interdiscplinary blend of literary criticism, linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, social studies and philosophy, stylistics is now a mature and vibrant single discipline, with a confident new generation of researchers enganged in the proper study of literature. This book collects some of these new voices together for the first time, and presents their latest work in a form that is accessible and placed into context. 

(Source: from the book introduction)