About the Author

Alison Gibbons is Reader in Contemporary Stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the author of Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature (Routledge 2012) and editor of Mark Z. Danielewski (Manchester University Press 2011), the Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (Routledge 2012), Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism (Rowman & Littlefield International 2017) and Pronouns in Literature: Perspectives and Positions in Language (Palgrave 2018).

Sara Whiteley is Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is a cognitive stylistician with a particular interest in the way readers experience contemporary literature. She is co-author of The Discourse of Reading Groups: Integrating Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives (Routledge, 2016) and co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics (Cambridge University Press, 2014).