The Ideological Manifestations in War Poetry: A Critical Stylistic Perspective

Authors

  • Sarab Khalil University of Baghdad
  • Wafa’ A. Sahan Al-Zahraa University for Women

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1204.05

Keywords:

ideology, negation, critical stylistics, war poetry, soldier poets

Abstract

Ideologies can be traced back and extracted through formal aspect of language where the authors’ choices reflect the world view they construct in order to influence their receptors. This study aims at extracting ideologies of war in war poetry relying upon the model of critical stylistics proposed by Leslie Jeffries (2010). The model presents ten textual-conceptual tools of analysis; one of which, ‘negating’, has been adopted as a tool of analysis in this paper to extract the hidden ideologies. The study came to the conclusion that the textual conceptual tool of analysis, negating, as a formal textual aspect guides into manifesting the hidden ideologies of the text producer about war and this is achieved through creating a virtual positive world in receptor’s mind to be juxtaposed with the actual negated world in order to build expectations.

Author Biographies

Sarab Khalil, University of Baghdad

English Department, College of Arts

Wafa’ A. Sahan, Al-Zahraa University for Women

English Department, College of Education

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2022-04-02

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