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A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Verse

A Question of Syllables: Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Verse

Scott, Clive
Sheringham, Michael

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 14

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521021324
ISBN13: 9780521021326
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 20 2005
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Dr Scott argues that only by attending to the precise locations of words in line or stanza, and to the specific value of syllables, or by understanding the often conflicting demands of rhythm and metre, can the reader of poetry acquire a real grasp of the intimate life of words in verse with all their fluctuations of meaning, mood and tone. The analyses through which the book pursues its argument address two principal concerns: the way in which syllabic position projects words and colours their complicated and challenged by the relationship of rhythm to metre.

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