Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... Old English poets favoured the first because this was the way they analysed the phenomenon— and it is a way more useful to literary effect - than that they did so in order to get the requisite metrical stresses for the verse line . The ...
... Old English poets favoured the first because this was the way they analysed the phenomenon— and it is a way more useful to literary effect - than that they did so in order to get the requisite metrical stresses for the verse line . The ...
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Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style Roger Fowler. Old English narrative verse was formulaic and therefore of an oral character ; that before being set down in script it was first composed in a manner indistinguishable ...
Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style Roger Fowler. Old English narrative verse was formulaic and therefore of an oral character ; that before being set down in script it was first composed in a manner indistinguishable ...
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... Old English poetry who stands notably apart from reinterpretations that assume a depen- dence on writing is R. P. Creed . Together with other scholars he provides evidence for the formulaic basis of style of OE poetry -from an ...
... Old English poetry who stands notably apart from reinterpretations that assume a depen- dence on writing is R. P. Creed . Together with other scholars he provides evidence for the formulaic basis of style of OE poetry -from an ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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