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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780521792943
- ISBN-10: 0521792940
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: August 2002
- Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 242
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