Overview
- Reconfigures assumptions about Sassoon's work through the lens of cognitive stylistics
- Uses Cognitive Grammar to account for perspective, prominence, specificity and scene organization
- Provides a broader account of Sassoon’s work by drawing on his diary entries, letters and prose fiction
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style (PSLLS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
Jane Potter, Reader (Arts), Oxford Brookes, University, UK
"Giovanelli’s book takes us on a fascinating deep dive into the language of Siegfried Sassoon, using Cognitive Grammar as a toolkit for revealing the linguistic mechanics of his poetry and his autobiographical prose. The meticulous, coherent, andscientifically grounded stylistic analyses show how Sassoon’s language guides readers’ cognitive processes toward specific experiential effects and interpretations. Giovanelli also provides clear and insightful explanations of concepts from Cognitive Grammar and cognitive stylistics more generally, as well as a thorough contextualization of Sassoon’s work. This book represents a landmark study of Sassoon’s language and an important development in the application of Cognitive Grammar to literary analysis."Eric Rundquist, Assistant Professor in English Linguistics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics and Head of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. He teaches on undergraduate modules in stylistics, cognitive poetics and English literature and supervises doctoral students working on topics in cognitive stylistics. He has previously published on both the work of Siegfried Sassoon and on stylistic applications of Cognitive Grammar.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Language of Siegfried Sassoon
Authors: Marcello Giovanelli
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88469-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88468-0Published: 23 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88471-0Published: 24 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88469-7Published: 22 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-8265
Series E-ISSN: 2731-8273
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations
Topics: Stylistics, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, Language and Literature, British and Irish Literature