Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 539 g
Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 539 g
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style
ISBN: 978-3-031-67639-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
This book explores Margaret Atwood’s distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses. It examines how strategies of misdirection, processes of doubling, and the creation of textual ambience play an essential role in Atwood’s contemporary prose fiction style. With reference to contemporary scholarship in stylistics and literary criticism, each chapter presents a detailed linguistic analysis of a different text from Atwood’s oeuvre, from (1996) to (2023). Above all, the book studies experiences of reading Atwood’s works, situating and contextualising her signature linguistic choices in relation to real readers’ responses to her writing. The book should be of interest to readers specialising in the work of Margaret Atwood, including those with stylistics, cognitive linguistics, and literary studies backgrounds.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1. The language of Margaret Atwood.- Part I: Misdirection.- Chapter 2. Burying and misdirection in .- Chapter 3. Memories and reconstrual in .- Part II: Ambient storms.- Chapter 4. Cold revenge and the stylistics of ambience in .- Chapter 5. Theatrical illusion and the performance of fictional minds in .- Part III: Doubling and splitting.- Chapter 6. Double consciousness and speculative worlds in .-Chapter 7. Voiceover narration and the split self in TV series.- Chapter 8. Future readers.
