Peter Verdonk is Emeritus Professor of Stylistics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His books include Twentieth-century Poetry (1993) and Stylistics (2002), Literature and the New Interdisciplinarity (1994, with Roger D. Sell), Twentieth-century Fiction (1995, with Jean Jacques Weber), and Exploring the Language of Drama (1998, with Jonathan Culpeper and Mick Short).