The Language of Siegfried Sassoon
Author | : Marcello Giovanelli |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-10-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 3030884716 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783030884710 |
Rating | : 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Language of Siegfried Sassoon written by Marcello Giovanelli and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-10-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.