Davide Castiglione

Vilnius university

About the workshop presenter

Davide Castiglione is Associate Professor of Stylistics at Vilnius University, where he teaches across a range of linguistic and literary subjects. He is the author of Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model (Palgrave, 2019) and of various articles and book chapters. He is also the president of LAUTE (Lithuanian Association of University Teachers of English) and the author of three poetry collections (in Italian). For more info, visit https://davidecastiglione.com/

Workshop A collective stylistic analysis? Yes, please!

In this workshop, after a short introduction to the discipline and scope of stylistics, we will put theory into practice and analyse a poem and the incipit of a novel. Since style is found at all linguistic levels and hinges on many features, members of the stylistic reading group, coordinated by Davide Castiglione, will lead small group discussions with the students on specific aspects of authorial style – from phonology to syntax, from semantics to pragmatic effects. We will then share and integrate the emerging insights in what will be, in fact, a boldly collective analysis. After all, the complexities of style call for the joint work of many minds!