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Book Review: The year’s work in stylistics: 2001

The year 2001 is likely to be remembered in particular for its studies of narrative, though various publications invoking the category ‘voice’ may eclipse even that large category. Attempts at interdisciplinary intertextuality were both stimulating and tantalizing in many instances. Shades of Genette and Bakhtin haunt, variously, the work of contributors to van Peer and Chatman, and of Ireland, Coupland and Cohen. Another notable feature of this year’s work are substantial revisions to important works in the field, including Katie Wales’s Dictionary of Stylistics, to which we may turn appropriately here as usual when workers in language and literature look for guidance: