Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... formal features concerns not individual points but wider aspects of organization . So colloquial English may be said to be formless , haphazard , disjointed , incomplete , whereas literature is highly organized and finished . Winifred ...
... formal features concerns not individual points but wider aspects of organization . So colloquial English may be said to be formless , haphazard , disjointed , incomplete , whereas literature is highly organized and finished . Winifred ...
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... formal or otherwise - just as our recognition of what texts are literary is unreliable in borderline cases ( e.g. in the decision whether to call a text ' bad literature ' or ' non - literature ' but not in discriminating between Yeats ...
... formal or otherwise - just as our recognition of what texts are literary is unreliable in borderline cases ( e.g. in the decision whether to call a text ' bad literature ' or ' non - literature ' but not in discriminating between Yeats ...
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... formal continua . As for discrete categories , more than two in number , this is a solution which has application on both of the levels , form and context . Enough examples may easily be collected to suggest that there is certainly a ...
... formal continua . As for discrete categories , more than two in number , this is a solution which has application on both of the levels , form and context . Enough examples may easily be collected to suggest that there is certainly a ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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