Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... foregrounding'.11 The metaphorical term ' foreground ' suggests the figure / ground opposition of gestalt psychology : the patterns of normal language are relevant to literary art only in providing a ' background ' for the structured ...
... foregrounding'.11 The metaphorical term ' foreground ' suggests the figure / ground opposition of gestalt psychology : the patterns of normal language are relevant to literary art only in providing a ' background ' for the structured ...
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... foregrounding ' should , of course , accommodate both the discrete and the relative types of deviation . The latter category is applicable to syntagmatic , as well as paradigmatic figures . A syntagmatic figure may be thought of as a ...
... foregrounding ' should , of course , accommodate both the discrete and the relative types of deviation . The latter category is applicable to syntagmatic , as well as paradigmatic figures . A syntagmatic figure may be thought of as a ...
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... foregrounded arrangement of grammatical elements . This type of grammatical foregrounding , for which the rhetorical term ' hyperbaton ' is available , may also contribute to a schematic figure . In Francis Thompson's The Hound of ...
... foregrounded arrangement of grammatical elements . This type of grammatical foregrounding , for which the rhetorical term ' hyperbaton ' is available , may also contribute to a schematic figure . In Francis Thompson's The Hound of ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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