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
1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2021
English