Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The writer's web -- 1. Anti-Laokoön: Mixed and Merged Modes of Imagetext on the Web -- 2. Personal Web Pages and the Semiotic Construction of Academic Identities -- 3. Hypertext, Prosthetics and the Netocracy: Posthumanist Aspects of Jeanette Winterson's The PowerBook -- 4. The Influence of Hypertext on Genre: Exploring Online Book Reviews -- Part II: Textual and technological transitions -- 5. Visual Representation of Phraseological Metaphor in Discourse: A Cognitive Approach -- 6. A Structural Analysis of Wordsworth's 'Daffodils' -- 7. Seeing the Sea: Deixis and the Perceptions of Melville's Reader -- 8. Narratives of Transgression: Challenging the Boundaries of Competent Discourses -- 9. The Translator's Craft as a Cross-Cultural Discourse -- 10. Illustrated Literature: Future Style, Fertile Spirit, or Futile Waste? -- Part III: Changing cultures of report -- 11. Who said that? Who wrote that? Reporting, Representation, and the Linguistics of Writing -- 12. 'Print Culture' and the Language of the 18th-Century Novel -- 13. Truth and Lies: The Construction of Factuality in a Television Documentary -- Part IV: Corpus-enabled stylistics -- 14. Technology and Stylistics: The Web Connection -- 15. How Playwrights Construct Their Dramatic Worlds: A Corpus-based Study of Vocatives in Early Modern English Comedies -- 16. Collocational Style in the Two Narratives of Bleak House: A Corpus-based Analysis -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology explores the multiple ways in which a culture's technological resources shape its literary productions. Literature and style cannot be divorced from the particular technologised culture that sponsors them. This has always been true, as papers here on literature from earlier periods show. But many of the papers focus on contemporary culture, where literature vies for attention with film, the internet, and other multimodal cultural forms. These essays, from an international array of experts, are stylistics-based but not stylistics-bound. They should be of interest to all who are interested in discourse analytic commentaries on how technological horizons, as always, continue to shape the forms and functions of literature and other cultural productions.

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