Style and Sense(s)

Linda Pillière is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Aix-Marseille Université, France.Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at University Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3, France.

• ​Chapter 1. Introduction: Enacting style and sense(s) (Linda Pillière and Sandrine Sorlin).- Part I ‘The representation of sense and sense-making in fiction’.- Chapter 2. The representation of experience in modernist fiction (Violeta Sotirova).- Chapter 3. To make you hear, make you feel, make you see: representing sense-perceptions in narrative fiction (Michael Toolan).- Chapter 4. The sense of the sense of smell in Virginia Woolf’s Flush (Stéphanie Béligon).- Part II ‘Sensory details across genres’.- Chapter 5. “The Mt Everest of dining experiences”: Multisensory style in restaurant reviews (Áine Dougherty & Craig Hamilton).- Chapter 6. “You see, but you do not observe” – Sensory manipulation and sense-making in the Sherlock Holmes detective stories (Catherine Emmott & Marc Alexander).- Part III ‘Experiencing otherness’.- Chapter 7. Experiencing mind style: from iconicity to sensory simulation (LouiseNuttall).- Chapter 8. Painting a world before language using language: A cognitive stylistic analysis of synaesthetic metaphors in the imagery of Keki Daruwalla’s “Before the Word” (Sreenidhi Sivakumar & Maitali Khanna).- Chapter 9. Remaking the sense(s) in Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree: a stylistic analysis (Esterino Adami).- Part IV ‘Senses through medium and semiotic systems’.- Chapter 10. “The sound must seem an echo to the sense”: Experiencing oral and silent reading of poetry (Willie van Peer & Anna Chesnokova).- Chapter 11. Creative writing practice of ekphrastic intervention: a case study of literary responses to “A Blind Girl Reading” by Ejnar Nielsen (Polina Gavin).- Chapter 12. Putting some flesh on sensory language: an experiential approach to style (Jean-Rémi Lapaire).