Language and Literary Structure: The Linguistic Analysis of Form in Verse and Narrative

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Cambridge University Press, 15 de ago. de 2002 - 230 páginas
Fabb offers a new linguistic approach to how metre and rhythm work in poetry based on pragmatic theory, providing a pragmatic explanation of formal ambiguity and indeterminacy and their aesthetic effects. He also uses linguistics to examine the experience of poetry. Language and Literary Structure will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, literary theory and stylistics."--Jacket.
 

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Literary form
1
Generated metrical form
34
Communicated form
57
The communication of metre
88
Lines
136
Linegroups in metrical verse and in narrative
178
Complexity
215
Bibliography
219
Subject index
227
Index of poets cited
229
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