Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics

Stockwell, Peter

Abstract

This chapter on a short story by D. H. Lawrence revisits a key stylistic account of the text by Bill Nash, which was criticised both specifically and as a general representation of stylistic practice. The chapter addresses those criticisms, differentiating those that are misplaced from those that might have had a reasonable basis. It claims that many of these older objections can be addressed by more recent innovations in the discipline, and in fact that Nash prefigured some later literary linguistics, though he lacked the tools to develop his solutions at the time. In this analysis, these innovations are drawn from the broadening of stylistics to encompass matters that would previously have been regarded as extra-linguistic, in the form of a cognitive poetics.

Citation

Stockwell, P. (2019). Chrysanthemums for Bill: On Lawrentian style and stylistics. In P. Simpson (Ed.), Style, rhetoric and creativity in language : in memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015) (37-55). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.34.04sto

• Online Publication Date: Nov 28, 2019
• Publication Date: Nov 28, 2019
• Deposit Date: Oct 23, 2020
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
• Pages: 37-55
• Series Title: Linguistic approaches to literature
• Series Number: 34
• Book Title: Style, rhetoric and creativity in language : in memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)
• Chapter Number: 2
• ISBN: 9789027204301
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.34.04sto
• Keywords: D. H. Lawrence; viewpoint; texture; resonance; subliminal effects; attractor; critical theory
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3611744
• Publisher URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/lal.34.04sto
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