Abstract
Stylistics and literary theory have not enjoyed an easy relationship, historically. In one tradition, stylistics is seen as a rather marginalized aspect of literary analysis, focusing on the grammatical, lexical, and phonological detail of the text. In another, linguistic theory is marshalled to produce general statements about the literary ‘experience’. Stylistics has traditionally drawn eclectically from contemporary linguistic theory and less so from literary theory. Modern developments include the appropriation of work in discourse analysis and cognitive science, while the general trend is to see linguistic features of a text as ‘triggers’ to other cognitive activity which is elucidated in the subsequent analysis.
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