The Language of Margaret Atwood

<p>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 <em>Alias Grace</em> (1996) to <em>Old Babes in the Wood</em> (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. </p>