tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post6213824762375696772..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Sentences in UtopiaTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-15353636162000432882008-06-10T08:36:00.000-07:002008-06-10T08:36:00.000-07:00The linguistic analysis of Morris’s utopian romanc...The linguistic analysis of Morris’s utopian romances is an insightful and ambitious undertaking. Among the great explorers of Morris’s style are Amanda Hodgson and John Lucas. The first emphasized the elaborated syntax and vocabulary employed in The Wood Beyond the World, while the latter stressed the vernacular simplicity of Morris as prose writer whose words “reflected his analysis of society”. Apart from archaisms and lexical artifices, Morris believed that “what the workers needed from a man speaking to them was plain English” (“Monopoly; or, How Labour is Robbed”).Alias Gueneverehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04629429142795339050noreply@blogger.com