(Im)politeness in McEwan’s Fiction

Urszula Kizelbach is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Culture at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She specialises in literary pragmatics, in particular the pragmatic analysis of Shakespearean drama and contemporary fiction. She published a book on (im)politeness and power in politics in Shakespeare’s histories titled The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics (2014). She is a Polish Ambassador of the Poetics and Linguistics Association. She teaches stylistics, Shakespeare, the history of British literature and translation.

• Chapter 1: Why Ian McEwan and Literary Pragma-Stylistics?.- Chapter 2: Pragmatics and the Analysis of Fiction.- Chapter 3: Narrative Tradition in Fiction: A Pragma-Stylistic Approach.- Chapter 4: Intradiegetic (Im)politeness or How the (Im)politeness Theory is used for Internal Characterisation.- Chapter 5: Extradiegetic (Im)politeness or How the Implied Author Communicates with the Reader.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

“This book offers a comprehensive exploration of enlightening topics, providing an in-depth analysis of impoliteness in the works of a single author. … As a well-written book on pragmatics and stylistics, the volume has the potential to enhance our understanding of the pragmatic elements in literary texts. Hence, we strongly recommend this book to a broad spectrum of readers, including pragmatists, stylisticians, and literary scholars at all levels.” (Kaihang Zhao and Yansheng Mao, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 227, 2024)