The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology
Edited by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Michael Toolan

The Writer's Craft, the Culture's Technology explores the multiple ways in
which a culture's technological resources shape its literary productions.
Literature and style cannot be divorced from the particular technologised
culture that sponsors them. This has always been true, as papers here on
literature from earlier periods show. But many of the papers focus on
contemporary culture, where literature vies for attention with film, the
internet, and other multimodal cultural forms. These essays, from an
international array of experts, are stylistics-based but not
stylistics-bound. They should be of interest to all who are interested in
discourse analytic commentaries on how technological horizons, as always,
continue to shape the forms and functions of literature and other cultural
productions.

Contributions:
Part I

Anti-Laokoon: Mixed and Merged Modes of Imagetext on the Web- George Dillon

Personal Web Pages and the Semiotic Construction of Academic Identities-
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

Hypertext, Prosthetics and the Netocracy: Posthumanist Aspects of Jeanette
Winterson's The PowerBook- Ulf Cronquist

The Influence of Hypertext on Genre: Exploring Online Book Reviews- Rosario
Caballero

Part II: Textual and technological transitions
Visual Representation of Phraseological Metaphor in Discourse: A Cognitive
Approach- Anita Naciscione

A Structural Analysis of Wordsworth's "Daffodils"- Ken Nakagawa

Seeing the Sea: Deixis and the Perceptions of Melville's Reader- Robert
Cockcroft

Narratives of Transgression: Challenging the Boundaries of "Competent
Discourses"- Ana Elizabeth Balocco

The translator's Craft as a Cross-Cultural Discourse- Mirjana Bonacic

Illustrated Literature - Future Style, Fertile Spirit or Futile Waste?-
Marika Schwaiger

Part III: Changing cultures of report
Who said that? Who wrote that? Reporting, Representation, and the
Linguistics of Writing- Geoff Hall

'Print Culture' and the Language of the Eighteenth-Century Novel- Joe Bray

Truth and Lies: the Construction of Factuality in a Television Documentary-
Susan Hunston

Part IV: Corpus-enabled stylistics
Technology and Stylistics: The Web Connection- Donald E Hardy

How Playwrights Construct their Dramatic World: A Corpus-Based Study of
Vocatives in Early Modern English Comedies- Michi Shiina

Collocational Style in the Two Narratives of Bleak House: A Corpus-based
Analysis- Masahiro Hori

Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York, NY 2005. XXIII, 261 pp. (PALA Papers 1)

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Dr. Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
Centre for English Language Studies
Dept. of English
University of Birmingham