8.1 Flemmich Webb on ‘Boxer Handsome’ by Anna Whitwham Flashcards
1
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Genre
A
- reproduced online
- informal
- informative and critical
2
Q
Mode
A
printed newspaper review
3
Q
Audience
A
- readers of The Independent (middle class and respectable)
- fans of Webb
- those interested in boxing
4
Q
Purpose
A
- to persuade people to buy and read the novel
- inform others on how good the novel is
5
Q
Voice
A
- professional
- educated
- formal
- informal
- authoritative
6
Q
Context
A
- Webb: an environmentalist, freelance editor, presenter and journalist
- Whitwham: teaches course on masculinity at London University
7
Q
“‘Boxer Handsome’ is Anna Whitwham’s first novel and was inspired by her grandfather, John Poppy, a young featherweight boxer at the Crown & Manor Boys Club in Hoxton”
A
- declarative: generic convention
- boxing lexis shares assumed knowledge
- proper noun: audience may recognise the place
8
Q
“The flurry of fist takes place in the canal, bare knuckle and brutal”
A
- boxing lexis
- intentional cliche
- semantic field of boxing to give insight into how boxing used to be
- plosives ‘bare knuckled and brutal’ give emphasise vulnerability and exposure
9
Q
“There’s something of Shakespeare’s emotionally stunted warrior”
A
- ref to Shakespeare suggests targeted audience: intellectual
