Norman Macleod

My main interest is in Stylistics (particularly in relation to literature), and beyond that in other areas that constitute the hinterland of stylistics - text and discourse analysis, pragmatics, and the evaluation of written text. I continue to emphasise grammatical and textual factors as central to stylistic analysis. I will accept research students, whether from a literary or linguistic background, who are interested in the linguistic exploration of texts. I will seriously consider any relevant proposal which interests me and where I feel able to offer useful and informed supervision.

In recent years, I have supervised postgraduate students working on theses and dissertations in such areas as the following:-

• stylistic analysis of twentieth century American poetry
• systematic textual analysis of Old Testament narrative
• stylistic revisions in D. H. Lawrence
• the possibilities and problematics of feminist grammar
• differences between fictional and factual text
• the style of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
• fictional representations of Glasgow speech
• problems of style and translation

My own research focuses particularly on language and style in fiction: I have worked in detail on many aspects of the language of Kingsley Amis. I am currently working on a long-term project on syntax in the analysis of fictional prose style. I have published articles on the language of such novelists as Graham Greene, William Golding, Henry James and Philip Roth and several articles each on the language and style of Charles Dickens and Kingsley Amis. I have also published an article on the stylistic anaylsis of poetry, and several on aspects of the textual analysis of pronominalisation.

My e-mail address is Norman.Macleod@ed.ac.uk