Construing the child reader: a cognitive stylistic analysis of the opening to Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book (2009) charts the story of Nobody Owens, a boy who is adopted by supernatural entities in the local graveyard after his family is murdered. This article draws on the notion of the “construed reader,” and combines two cognitive stylistic frameworks to analyse the open...

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Main Author: Giovanelli, Marcello
Format: Article
Published: Springer 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34079/