Introduction: The State of Contemporary Stylistics, Marina Lambrou (University of East London, UK) and Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham, UK); I: Stylistics of Prose; 1. Woolf's Experiments with Consciousness in Fiction, Violeta Sotirova (University of Nottingham, UK); Introduced by Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield, UK); 2. A Corpus Stylistic Perspective on Dickens' Great Expectations, Michaela Mahlberg (University of Liverpool, UK); Introduced by Michael McCarthy (University of Nottingham, UK); 3. The Stylistics of True Crime: Mapping the Minds of Serial Killers, Christiana Gregoriou (University of Leeds, UK); Introduced by Urszula Clark (Aston University, UK); 4. 'Do you want to hear about it?' Exploring Possible Worlds in Michael Joyce's Hyperfiction, afternoon, a story, Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam, UK); Introduced by Brian McHale; 5. The Effects of Free Indirect Discourse: Empathy Revisited, Joe Bray (University of Sheffield, UK); Introduced by Geoff Hall (University of Swansea, UK); 6. The Stylistics of Cappuccino Fiction: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective, Rocio Montoro (University of Huddersfield, UK); Introduced by Imelda Whelehan (De Montfort University, UK); 7. Attribution Theory: Action and Emotion in Dickens and Pynchon, Alan Palmer; Introduced by Elena Semino (University of Lancaster, UK); 8. Bridget Jones's Diary and Feminist Narratology, Ruth Page (Birmingham City University, UK); Introduced by Sara Mills (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); 9. Schema Poetics and Crossover Fiction, Clare Walsh (De Monfort University, UK); Introduced by John McRae (University of Nottingham, UK); 10. Deixis, Cognition and the Construction of Viewpoint, Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield, UK); Introduced by Paul Simpson (Queen's University Belfast, Ireland); II: Stylistics of Poetry; 11. 'And everyone and I stopped breathing': Familiarity and Ambiguity in the Text-World of 'The Day Lady Died', Joanna Gavins (University of Sheffield, UK); Introduced by Catherine Emmott (University of Glasgow, Scotland); 12. 'Progress is a comfortable disease': Cognition in a Stylistic Analysis of e.e. cummings, Michael Burke (Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg, USA); Introduced by Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham, UK); 13. Megametaphorical Mappings and the Landscapes of Canadian Poetry, Ernestine Lahey (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); Introduced by Peter Verdonk (Emeritus, University of Leeds, UK); 14. Perception and the Lyric: The Emerging Mind of the Poem, Sharon Lattig (City University, New York, USA); Introduced by Alan Durant (Middlesex University, UK); 15. Deviant Collocation in Literature as a Tool for Vocabulary Expansion, Dany Badran (Notre Dame University, Lebanon); Introduced by Ron Carter (University of Nottingham, UK); III: Stylistics of Dialogue and Drama; 16. Oral Accounts of Personal Experiences: When is a Narrative a Recount? Marina Lambrou (University of East London, UK). Introduced by David Herman; 17. 'Never a truer word said in jest': A Pragmastylistic Analysis of Impoliteness as Banter in Henry IV, Part I, Derek Bousfield (University of Huddersfield, UK); Introduced by Billy Clark (Middlesex University, UK); 18. The Cognitive Rhetoric of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Craig Hamilton (University of California, USA); Introduced by Peter Crisp; 19. The Stylistics of Drama: The Reign of King Edward III, Beatrix Busse (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany); Introduced by Monika Fludernik (Albert-Ludwig University, Freiburg); 20. Computer-Assisted Literary Stylistics: The State of the Field, Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire, UK); Introduced by Jonathan Culpeper (University of Lancaster, UK); References; Index.