Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose, 2nd Edition

• Provides students with a systematic introduction to and explanation of the main features of 'style'
• Contains a series of close analyses of extracts from a wide range of novels and stories for great depth of coverage
• Includes an abundance of new material, addressing the massive changes in the discipline that have taken place over the last 25 years
• The ‘Further Reading’ section and the bibliographical references have been thoroughly updated.

Foreword 
Introduction 
Part I: Approaches and methods 
1. Style and Choice 
2. Style, Text and Frequency 
3. A Method of Analysis and some Examples 
4. Levels of Style Part II: Aspects of style 
5. Language and the Fictional World
6. Mind Style 
7. The Rhetoric of Text 
8. Discourse and Discourse Situation 
9. Conversation in the Novel
10. Speech and Thought Presentation Passages and topics for further study 
Further reading 
Bibliography
Index of works discussed
General index