Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... reference to the proportions of rhythm - units with internal alliteration . Seymour Chatman ( ' Comparing Metrical Styles ' in Sebeok ) has compared Pope's and Donne's versification by reference to quite a small area of metrics . A ...
... reference to the proportions of rhythm - units with internal alliteration . Seymour Chatman ( ' Comparing Metrical Styles ' in Sebeok ) has compared Pope's and Donne's versification by reference to quite a small area of metrics . A ...
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... reference it occasions . This is the emotive . The distinction once clearly grasped is simple . We may either use words for the sake of the references they promote , or we may use them for the sake of the attitudes and emotions which ...
... reference it occasions . This is the emotive . The distinction once clearly grasped is simple . We may either use words for the sake of the references they promote , or we may use them for the sake of the attitudes and emotions which ...
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... reference to the rest of the form of the text . The phonological character of a poem is rarely offered as its main attraction , for we no longer delight in linguistic virtuosity for its own sake . We are disposed to consider how it ...
... reference to the rest of the form of the text . The phonological character of a poem is rarely offered as its main attraction , for we no longer delight in linguistic virtuosity for its own sake . We are disposed to consider how it ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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