Stylistic Studies of Literature

Contents: Masahiro Hori: Foreword - Sadahiro Kumamoto: Introduction - Kazuho Murata: Phrasal Verbs in Defoe's Non-fictional Writings and their Stylistic Significance - Yuko Ikeda: From «Liveliness» to «Tranquillity»: A Lexical Approach to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park - Hirotoshi Takeshita: Some Syntactic and Stylistic Observations on Absolutes in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Sadahiro Kumamoto: The Poetic Technique of Enjambment in Chaucer's Poems: The Case of Five Sentence Elements (S, Aux, V, O, C) - Masahiro Hori: Collocational Styles of First-person Narratives in Dickens: David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great Expectations - Tomoji Tabata: «Wickedly, Falsely, Traitorously, and otherwise Evil-adverbiously, Revealing» the Author's Style: Correspondence Analysis of -ly Adverbs in Dickens and Smollett - Keisuke Koguchi: Stylistic Use of Repetition in A Tale of Two Cities - Noritaka Tomimura: The Use of Song in Shakespeare's Plays - Tomoko Takaki: Plot Patterns of Irish Folktales Involving Fairies - Osamu Ueda: Stylistics Class in Japan: With Some Model Analyses of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Richard Gilbert: Plausible Deniability: Nature as Hypothesis in English-language Haiku.

The Editors: Masahiro Hori is Professor of English Linguistics and Stylistics at Kumamoto Gakuen University in Japan. His Investigating Dickens' Style: A Collocational Analysis (2004) was awarded the Corpus Linguistics Association Prize for 2005 in Japan.
Tomoji Tabata is Associate Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the Graduate School of Language and Culture, at the University of Osaka. His primary research interests are in corpus-stylistic investigation of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British fiction with special reference to Charles Dickens.
Sadahiro Kumamoto is Professor of English Philology at Kumamoto University in Japan. He received a Ph.D. in 2002 for his The Rhyme-Structure of The Romaunt of the Rose-A: In Comparison with Its French Original Le Roman de la Rose.