Situated among fields (applied linguistics, creative writing studies, writing studies), this book empirically explores the language of writers in contexts of learning externalized in literary genres.

"Elegantly written, convincingly argued, and interspersed with hauntingly beautiful and poignant poems written by his ESL students, Hanauer's book draws attention to the unexplored potential of poetry writing in a second language classroom.

This book advances a model for the analysis of contemporary satirical humour.

This volume examines the development of poetic literacy including the specific processes used by expert poetry readers and professional poets.

Here is a much needed introductory textbook on empirical research methods for the Humanities.

This book uses empirical research methods to focus on the processes of literary reading, revealing two pathways for the transformative powers of literature.

This book thus contributes to a deeper understanding of the problems that are at the heart of past and present debates over literary quality.

" This book examines the dynamics of readers' beliefs regarding fictional characters and the influence of those impressions on the emotions that readers experience.

This book proposes that a matrix of narrativity-furthering textual features is crucial to the reader’s forming of expectations about how a literary story will continue to its close.

This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.