Language and literary structure : the linguistic analysis of form in verse and narrative
"How does a literary text get to have literary form, and what is the relation between literary form and linguistic form? This theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focuses on verse and narrative from a linguistic perspective. Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse and oral narrative traditions, as well as contemporary criticism. In recent years literary theory has paid relatively little attention to form; this book argues that form is interesting
x, 230 pages ; 24 cm
9780521792943, 9780521796989, 9786610432967, 0521792940, 0521796989, 6610432961
49875148
1. Literary form
2. Generated metrical form
3. Communicated form
4. The communication of metre
5. Lines
6. Line-groups in metrical verse and in narrative
7. Complexity
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