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The Language of Siegfried Sassoon (Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2022
ISBN
3030884686, 9783030884680
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4369630 bytes)
Pages
231\227
Time added
2024-03-27 01:03:21

Description

This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who has typically been perceived as a poet of protest and irony, but whose work is in fact multi-faceted and complex in theme and shifted in style considerably throughout his lifetime. The author starts from the premise that a more systematic account of Sassoon’s style is possible using the methodology of contemporary stylistics, in particular Cognitive Grammar. Using this as a starting point, he revisits common ideas from Sassoon scholarship and reconfigures them through the lens of cognitive stylistics to provide a fresh perspective on Sassoon's style. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of stylistics, war poetry, twentieth-century literature, and cognitive linguistics.

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