Contents
Foreword | Frank Farmer
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moving Forward with Style | Paul Butler, Brian Ray, and Star Medzerian Vanguri
Section 1: Style Mediates Relationships
1. Cans of Worms: Tracing an Undergraduate Thesis-Writer’s Style Knowledge over Time | Andrea R. Olinger
2. “Here’s What I Would Like for You to Know”: Epistolary Style as an Invitation to Read and Write Metonymically | Melissa A. Goldthwaite
3. “Clarity” Really Means Rhythm: Toward a Psychoanalytic Poetics of Prose | T. R. Johnson
4. Erasmus in the Professional Writing Classroom: Workplace Genre, Designing and Writing for the Web, and the Future of Style | Tom Pace
Section 2: Style Conveys Identity
5. The Stylized Portrayal of the Writing Life in Spike Jonze’s Her | Cydney Alexis and Eric Leake
6. Stance as Style: Toward a Framework for Analyzing Academic Language | Laura L. Aull and Zak Lancaster
7. Looking Forward to a Nice, Stupid, Future Style. R U? | Jimmy Butts
8. Metaphorical Translingualisms: The Hip-Hop Cipher as Stylistic Concept | Eric A. House
Section 3: Style Forms Strategy
9. Expectations of Exaltation: Formal Sublimity as a Prolegomenon to Style’s Unbounded Future | Jarron Slater
10. Civil Style: Reexamining Discourse and Rhetorical Listening in Composition | Laura L. Aull
11. Applied Legal Storytelling: Toward a Stylistics of Embodiment | Almas Khan
12. What Style Can Add to Genre: Suggestions for Applying Stylistics to Disciplinary Writing | Anthony Box
Section 4: Style Creates and Transcends Boundaries
13. Point of Departures: Composition and Creative Writing Studies’ Shared Stylistic Values | Jon Udelson
14. The Danger of Using Style to Determine Authorship: The Case of Luke and Acts | Mike Duncan
15. Words, Words, Words, or Leveraging Lexis for a Pedagogy of Style | William T. FitzGerald
About the Authors
Index