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Language and Literary Structure

Language and Literary Structure

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Linguistics

ISBN10: 0521796989
ISBN13: 9780521796989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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 tradition, as well as contemporary criticism. He offers a new linguistic approach to how metre and rhythm work in poetry, based on pragmatic theory. He provides a pragmatic explanation of formal ambiguity and indeterminacy and their aesthetic effects.

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