Perplexity and Predicament: A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of A Summer Bird-Cage

This paper aims to explore the text style of Margaret Drabble’s novel A Summer Bird-Cage. Specifically, it is intended scrutinize how language vivifies her representation some women characters’ perplexity and predicament when they are confronted with problems related value orientations lifestyles. The present paper’s significance lies in a methodological breakthrough resultant interdisciplinary insights. To achieve main specified above, this will following research question: stylistically, lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, clusters spatio-temporal order its discourse prosodies or “tone characters” speeches. As whole, study situated context where previous many current studies Bird-Cage primarily qualitative. complement them, embodies mixed methods research, featuring computer-aided, data-based, corpus stylistic approach novel. Based on multi-layered investigation use close analysis it, obtains interesting findings follows. First, young, educated British women’s complicated psychological experiences thematized via narratorial introspection that centers around processing mind. Second, tone speeches underlying attitude important issues often negative, indicative bewilderment. In short, adopts thematic character contribution body specialized knowledge art fiction.