Style, rhetoric and creativity in language : in memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015)

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"This commemorative volume comprises ten essays which celebrate the work of Walter (Bill) Nash. Bill Nash was an extraordinary scholar--a classicist, parodist, critic, musician, linguist, poet, polyglot, humourist and novelist. He was as adroit in his reading of the Old Norse sagas as he was in his analyses of the rhetorical composition of everyday English usage, and his published outputs embrace the stylistic, rhetorical, compositional and creative topographies of both language and literature. The contributions that comprise this volume are all by well-known scholars in the field and each essay celebrates Nash's prodigious offering by covering the academic fields with which he was particularly associated. These fields include composition, rhetoric, discourse analysis, English usage, comic discourse, creative writing and the stylistic exploration of literature from the Old English period to that of the present day"--  Read more... "Warmth of thought" in Walter Nash's prose and verse / Susan Cockcroft and Robert Cockcroft -- Chrysanthemums for Bill: on Lawrentian style and stylistics / Peter Stockwell -- The doubling of design in Walter Nash's Rhetoric: The wit of persuasion / David Stacey -- Riddling: The dominant rhetorical device in W.H. Auden's "The wanderer" / Peter Verdonk -- "My Shakespeare, rise": Ben Jonson's pronominal choices in "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author" (1623) / Clara Calvo -- Discourse presentation and point of view in "Cheating at canasta" by William Trevor / Mick Short -- Doing and teaching: from Kettle of roses to Language and creative illusion and back again / Michael Toolin -- Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy / Michael Stubbs -- Common language: corpus, creativity and cognition / Ronald Carter -- "Americans don't do irony": cross-cultural perspectives on the pragmatics of irony / Paul Simpson -- Poem. Defunct address / Robert Cockcroft.