Acknowledgements |
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Introduction: Style, Composition, Creative Practice |
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The structure of this book |
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1 Seeing through Language |
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1.2 Worlds from words: Mimesis and diegesis |
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1.3 Language and creativity |
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21 | (3) |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (3) |
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2 Building Blocks I: A Grammar of Creative Writing |
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2.2 Basic components of grammar |
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2.3 Levels of style: language as cognitive code |
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3 Building Blocks II: Narrative and Structure (Story Narratology) |
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3.2 Definitions: the act of narration |
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3.3 Discourse versus fabula |
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4 Through the Looking Glass: Who Sees? Who Tells? (Discourse Narratology) |
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4.2 Seeing versus telling |
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4.4 Overtness and covertness |
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5 Writing Voices: Presenting Speech and Thought |
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5.3 Narrator's Representation of Action (NRA), or pure narration |
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5.6 Narrator's Representation of Speech (NRS) and Narrator's Representation of Thought (NRT) |
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5.7 Free Indirect Discourse (FID) |
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5.8 Creative potentialities |
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120 | (1) |
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6 Creating a World: Text-world Theory and Cognitive Poetics |
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128 | (7) |
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6.5 Avoiding inhibition of return |
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7 Creative Writing: Figurative Language |
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7.2 Types of linguistic deviation |
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7.3 Is there a standard language? |
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7.4 Is there a literary language? |
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7.5 Connotative and denotative language |
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8 Meaning and Play: Metaphor |
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8.3 The cognitive roots of metaphor |
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8.5 Pitfalls: the mixed metaphor |
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178 | (1) |
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9 Creating Soundscapes: Rhythm and Meter, Sound and Sense |
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9.2 Phonology: a brief overview |
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9.3 Musical or meaningful? |
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182 | (4) |
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186 | (3) |
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9.6 Parallelism revisited: repetition |
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197 | (5) |
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Appendix: A Stylistic Sandbox |
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Notes |
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References and Selected Further Reading |
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Index |
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