This module is concerned with the linguistic analysis of literary texts. Its main aim is to enable you to use linguistic analysis in order to explain how literary texts achieve their effects (for example, how they convey new views of reality, how they project text worlds and characters, how they convey different points of view). The module introduces the most central concepts in stylistics, including the most recent advances in the field (especially in cognitive stylistics). The focus is mostly on prose fiction, but poetry and drama will also be considered.