Harrison The Language of Margaret Atwood

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-67640-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Harrison, Chloe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK. She specialises in cognitive stylistics, re-reading and contemporary fiction.