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{"title":"Pandemic intervention in art: An ekphrastic account of the self in lockdown","authors":"Polina Gavin, Marcello Giovanelli","doi":"10.1177/09639470261491779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261491779","url":null,"abstract":"The lived experiences of COVID-19 pandemic are reflected in many creative media practices. This article highlights how engaging with ekphrastic writing offers readers a means of approaching recent pandemic events through engagement with art, enabling creative reflection on lived experience through visual-verbal mediation. Treating ekphrasis as both a creative and interpretative practice, this article examines how linguistic strategies of ekphrastic intervention shape participants’ engagement with abstract art and how participants negotiate the resulting ekphrastic composition in light of their pandemic experiences. As part of the <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Writing and Reading the Pandemic</jats:italic> project, this article examines two forms of response inspired by and connected to the pandemic: an ekphrastic poem written during lockdown and readers’ discussions of an ekphrastic composition in an online reading group. The data for the analysis consist of an ekphrastic poem ‘Self-Portrait in Quarantine’ by Alarie Tennille, which is written in response to Guillermo Wiedemann’s abstract painting <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Figure</jats:italic> (1959) and published during the first wave of lockdowns in April 2020. Drawing on the model of ekphrastic intervention, we examine the conceptual relations established between the artwork and its poetic rendering, extending previous applications of the model beyond figurative art to abstraction. Reader-response data are then examined to explore how participants integrate and negotiate these cross-media relationships, and how engagement with ekphrastic covid poetry opens a pathway to deeper empathetic alignment and reflection on lived pandemic experiences of the self and the other.","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The language of contemporary poetry: A framework for poetic analysis Lesley Jeffries, The Language of Contemporary Poetry. A Framework for Poetic Analysis . Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 282 pp. ISBN: 978-3-031-09748-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-3-031-09749-2 (ebk).","authors":"Davide Castiglione","doi":"10.1177/09639470261492180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261492180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rhyme over reason: Phonological motivation in English RékaBenczes, Rhyme Over Reason: Phonological Motivation in English. Cambridge University Press, 2019, 284 pages: ISBN: 978-1-108-74074-6, price: £32 (paperback).","authors":"Enora Lessinger","doi":"10.1177/09639470261492113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261492113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Monster metaphors: When rhetoric runs amok AdamsPeter J., Monster Metaphors: When Rhetoric Runs Amok. Routledge, 2023, pp: 258. ISBN 9781003223580, £29.24 (ebk).","authors":"Kimberley Pager-McClymont","doi":"10.1177/09639470261492112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261492112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The year’s work in stylistics 2025","authors":"Adrián Castro","doi":"10.1177/09639470261469048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261469048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148589068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics) RomanoManuela, ed., Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics), Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024; 6+334 pp.: ISBN 978-3-11-100125-8, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111001364, EUR 144.95 (hbk).","authors":"Svitlana Shurma","doi":"10.1177/09639470261468530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261468530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148416758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Caribbean discourses: Stylistic and critical discourse approaches to language use in the Caribbean DurgasinghRyanSelvon-RamkissoonNicha (eds), Caribbean Discourses: Stylistic and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024; 364; pp.: ISBN 9783031450464, GBP 109.99.","authors":"Naomi Adam","doi":"10.1177/09639470261468504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261468504","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148408953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rewriting Roald Dahl: The impact of textual revisions to George’s Marvellous Medicine in the light of sensitivity reading","authors":"Dan McIntyre","doi":"10.1177/09639470261419867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261419867","url":null,"abstract":"Publishers are increasingly employing sensitivity readers to assess and advise on potentially problematic content in authors’ manuscripts, either pre- or post-publication. In this article I provide an analysis of the impact of making changes to an author’s already-published manuscript, with a view to determining whether sensitivity reading actually works to reduce potential hurt and offence to readers. My case study is of Roald Dahl’s short novel for children, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">George’s Marvellous Medicine</jats:italic> (1981). I compare the original version of the novel with a revised version published in 2022. I focus on answering four questions: (i) What proportion of the original text has been revised in the 2022 edition?; (ii) What are the functions of the textual revisions?; (iii) Are the revisions primarily to narration or to non-narration (e.g. dialogue)?; and (iv) Are the revisions successful in reducing potential hurt or offence to readers? To answer these questions, I begin by cataloguing the changes made to the revised text and quantifying the nature of these. I then identify eight types of revision. My results suggest that while the underlying aims of sensitivity reading may be laudable, in practice the revisions to Dahl’s manuscript do little to reduce the potential for hurt and offence. In some cases this is because the changes made to the 2022 text have been applied inconsistently. In others, it is because to remove problematic issues would necessitate altering the plot and narratological structure of the novel as opposed to making minor amendments to the language of the text.","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Principles of … stylistics: The central place of IA Richards’ principles of literary criticism in a theory of stylistics","authors":"Davide Castiglione","doi":"10.1177/09639470261455989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261455989","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that IA Richards’ <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Principles of Literary Criticism</jats:italic> (1924) brings to light several key challenges in contemporary stylistics while pointing to their possible solutions. After introducing the scope and ambition of Richards’ book, the article examines a set of interrelated issues. The first is Richards’ ambivalent attitude to imagery, evidencing the challenges that this phenomenon poses to any systematic account of literary experience. In particular, the variability of responses associated with imagery appears at odds with the scientific need to find regularities in the responses themselves. The second issue is the troubled route between stimulus and response, which characterises not just imagery but extends to the whole of literary effects. In the spirit of Richards, the article regards such non-linearity as uncharted complexity rather than randomness, emphasising the influence of a mediating factor: namely, context itself. The article offers some initial thoughts on how to model context by exploring the testability of some feature-effect claims, including claims made by Richards himself. The issue of testability thus paves the way for an exploration of Richards’ empirical side, particularly his observations on the tension between the richness of literary experience and the simplifications imposed by experimental methods – a tension that reflects the diverging aims of the two disciplines underpinning Richards’ work: literary criticism and psychology. The article concludes by showing how <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Principles of Literary Criticism</jats:italic> can help us better theorise literary effects. This is done first by focusing on Richards’ critique of the <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">fallacy of projection</jats:italic> , whereby the effects triggered by a work of art are erroneously re-conceptualised as the work’s inherent qualities; and, second, by reappraising Richards’ diagram representing the experience of reading a poem. I suggest that the stages of the diagram – sensations, imagery (tied vs free), reference, emotions and attitudes – grow increasingly autonomous from the stimulus (the poem), thereby cueing a parallel increase in subjective appropriation and depth of processing. In addressing these issues, the article brings to the fore the lasting legacy of Richards’ ‘thinking machine’ – as he unassumingly but fittingly called his masterpiece.","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IA Richards’ P rinciples of Literary Criticism : A ‘machine to think with’ for Stylistics","authors":"Craig Hamilton","doi":"10.1177/09639470261455990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470261455990","url":null,"abstract":"IA Richards is widely recognised as a founding father in 20th-century English stylistics. A century ago, one of his most important books, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Principles of Literary Criticism</jats:italic> , was first published. The book – which deals more with poetics than hermeneutics – has remained in print ever since. On the occasion of the centenary of its initial publication, this article focuses on three key topics that Richards explored in his 1924 book: value, experience and communication. As I explain, Richards links them to each other in unique ways that might interest stylisticians today, although English stylistics has since tended to focus more on communication or experience than on value in the past few decades.","PeriodicalId":45849,"journal":{"name":"Language and Literature","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}