Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... Parry shows , are so useful that they would relieve the poet of the time - consuming exercise of selection , for at any single moment there is usually only one group of words in the whole of the poetic language that will suffice and ...
... Parry shows , are so useful that they would relieve the poet of the time - consuming exercise of selection , for at any single moment there is usually only one group of words in the whole of the poetic language that will suffice and ...
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... Parry's original emphasis . What had disturbed many admirers of the ancient Greek epics was the rigid functionalism of the formulaic style as Parry had revealed it , a functionalism that exhibited the relationship between metre and ...
... Parry's original emphasis . What had disturbed many admirers of the ancient Greek epics was the rigid functionalism of the formulaic style as Parry had revealed it , a functionalism that exhibited the relationship between metre and ...
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... Parry discovered about the details of language , has been able to explain the larger techniques of organization ... Parry's on Homer ) which rested on the false reasoning that if oral poetry was formulaic then formulaic poetry was oral ...
... Parry discovered about the details of language , has been able to explain the larger techniques of organization ... Parry's on Homer ) which rested on the false reasoning that if oral poetry was formulaic then formulaic poetry was oral ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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