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Lesley Jeffries’ latest book has just been published by Continuum.
Opposition in Discourse is Lesley’s second book this academic year and is the first in a new series, Advances in Stylistics, which is edited by Lesley’s colleague Dan McIntyre. The book marks the culmination of the first stages of Lesley’s ongoing research into opposition – specifically how this is created linguistically and what kinds of effects it generates for readers. The book pays special attention to the role of opposition in the construction of ideologies, focusing particularly on opposition in news stories.
An article by a PhD student in English has recently been published in the journal Language and Literature.
Carol Bellard-Thomson’s paper discusses initial results from her doctoral study of how students go about learning stylistic analysis. Carol, a member of the Stylistics Research Centre, is in the final year of her PhD. The findings from her research will be used to improve the teaching of undergraduate level stylistics at Huddersfield.
The full reference for Carol’s article is: Bellard-Thomson, C. (2010) ‘How students learn stylistics: constructing an empirical study’, Language and Literature 19(1): 35-58.
The Huddersfield Literature Festival gave us a taster of events to come with a reading and question and answer session by newly published author, Anna Chilvers. After explaining her theme choices and source of inspiration, she began to read from her new book, Falling through Clouds.
Sitting alongside English students, we listened intently as Anna read through the first chapter of her book which introduced us to Kat, a 22-year-old student, returning home to Devon for the summer holidays, who meets Gavin on the train. As she read, themes of mystery, romance and myth began to emerge and the author closed the book with a smile on her face knowing her audience wanted to hear more.
We were then invited to ask questions about her writing and Anna described her persistence with publishers to get her book published. She introduced us to her publishers, Bluemoose Books, and encouraged us to ask questions about the industry and the importance of being creative and original with our story writing.
Dr Jessica Malay has been awarded a major research grant by the Leverhulme Trust of £156,274.00 over three years for a project entitled 'Anne Clifford's Great Books: A Transformative Narrative of Identity and Place'. The project will transcribe and edit a Anne Clifford's Great Books, which presently exist only in manuscript. The grant provides funding for Research Fellow, Dr. Sheila Sweetinburgh to transcribe the manuscript of over 1000 pages, and to work with Jessica in editing the print edition. Full article here.
Lesley Jeffries' most recent book, Critical Stylistics, has just been published by Palgrave. Critical Stylistics focuses on the contribution that stylistics can make to Critical Discourse Analysis in uncovering hidden ideologies in texts. Lesley has recently finished two further books, both of which are due to be published next year.
