Cognitive stylistics offers a range of frameworks for understanding (amongst other things) what producers of literary texts 'do' with language and how they 'do' it. Less prevalent, however, is an understanding of the ways in which these same frameworks offer insights into what readers 'do' (and how they 'do' it). Text World Theory (Werth, 1999; Gavins, 2007; Whiteley, 2011) has proved useful fo...

A research project on timing relations in prose, poetry and music is outlined. In order to gain a deeper understanding of speech prosody, a comparison will be made of timing relations in such activities as reading of poetry and music performance, where there usually is a strong and obvious rhythmic patterning of the produced sound sequences. Also there are interesting parallels to be drawn by c...

We propose two novel methodologies for the automatic generation of rhythmic poetry in a variety of forms. The first approach uses a neural language model trained on a phonetic encoding to learn an implicit representation of both the form and content of English poetry. This model can effectively learn common poetic devices such as rhyme, rhythm and alliteration. The second approach considers poe...

In her article "Ginsberg's Translations of Apollinaire's and Genet's Poetry" Véronique Lane discusses Allen Ginsberg's journals, letters, and poems and their references to literary models. Focusing on Ginsberg's involvement with Guillaume Apollinaire's and Jean Genet's works, Lane argues that Ginsberg constructed the genealogy of his poetry through a threefold strategy of literary quotation, tr...

Abstract The starting point for the author’s considerations is conception of style as humanistic structure text, which he uses foundation integrating stylistic synthesis. synthesis to be characterized by following: 1) holism (moderately and functionally directed, brought down a system in relations connecting different manners existence functioning language text are exposed); 2) integrationism (...