03906nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-67640-6 DE-He213 20251030113314.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241116s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031676406 978-3-031-67640-6 10.1007/978-3-031-67640-6 doi P301-301.5 CFG bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh CFG thema Harrison, Chloe. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73912 The Language of Margaret Atwood [electronic resource] / by Chloe Harrison. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXI, 226 p. 5 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style, 2731-8273 Chapter 1. The language of Margaret Atwood -- Part I: Misdirection -- Chapter 2. Burying and misdirection in The Blind Assassin -- Chapter 3. Memories and reconstrual in Alias Grace -- Part II: Ambient storms -- Chapter 4. Cold revenge and the stylistics of ambience in Stone Mattress -- Chapter 5. Theatrical illusion and the performance of fictional minds in Hag-Seed -- Part III: Doubling and splitting -- Chapter 6. Double consciousness and speculative worlds in Oryx and Crake.-Chapter 7. Voiceover narration and the split self in The Handmaid’s Tale TV series -- Chapter 8. Future readers. 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 Alias Grace (1996) to Old Babes in the Wood (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. Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Aston University, UK. She specialises in cognitive stylistics, re-reading and contemporary fiction. Language and languages Style. 66672 Poetry. 66137 Literature, Modern 20th century. Literature, Modern 21st century. 66700 Psycholinguistics. 72377 Fiction. Stylistics. 72420 Poetry and Poetics. 66141 Contemporary Literature. 66702 Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics. 72378 Fiction Literature. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031676390 Printed edition: 9783031676413 Printed edition: 9783031676420 Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style, 2731-8273 87570 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67640-6 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 64981 64981