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During 2020, sales of books increased as readers found more time to engage with fiction and return to books that provided comfort and a sense of escapism. The Covid-19 pandemic also provided the space for a new genre, "covid fiction", to emerge. This article examines the sub-genre of "covid poetry" by integrating text and reader response data analysis to examine the representation of the pandemic experience in Michele Witthaus' poem "The new shape of fear". Analysis of the data reveals that participants interpret and discuss the poem by drawing on foregrounded language features in the text, reflecting on their own pandemic experiences and demonstrating empathy with the experiences of others. These findings demonstrate that covid poetry may have particular interpretative effects that are geared towards self- and other-understanding. Overall, the article sets out some first steps towards examining the stylistic characteristics and interpretative effects of this emerging and important genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the novel Autumn by Scottish author Ali Smith, published in 2016. Our study seeks to contribute to the understanding of the way the author has chosen to represent the cultural and generational gaps on the background of Brexit in the UK in her novel, by providing an in-depth stylistic analysis dwelling on the author's linguistic choices. The applicative part of our study will provide a stylistic investigation of the selected literary text, bringing to the fore the main linguistic features and the symbols the author has chosen in order to depict the general state of the nation and to underline the divisions and the fractions born as a consequence of the 2016 referendum in the UK. This study addresses several issues related to the cultural and generational gaps already existing in the pre-Brexit period in the UK, which are reflected in Ali Smith's novel. Smith, who considers that all Brexit did was to reveal these gaps, underlines the fact that these misuderstandings and differences had already been there before the UK's decision to withdraw from the European bloc. The main objective of this paper is to provide a stylistic analysis with special focus on the symbols and symbolism identified in the selected literary text, be they people, marks, locations, or material objects, representing something beyond the literal meaning. Our analysis fosters a more in-depth understanding of the selected literary text, uncovering the hidden yet essential aspects of the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an examination of three pamphlets produced by English author John Milton in the year 1649 including, "The Tenure," "Observations" and "Eikonoklastes." The author explores how these pamphlets combine elements that Milton favored during the 1640s, particularity oration and the animadversion, and explores how these elements are rooted in classical rhetorical theory and the Renaissance adaption of it. The author discusses how the structure, style and aesthetics of the pamphlets illustrate Milton's ability to utilized the rhetoric and poetic elements of classical and Renaissance rhetorical literature.