Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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Page 54
... seems to have been a proper and useful response to the challenge of the difficult , new literature of the twentieth century . To put it crudely , such criticism can make exciting sense of poems which would seem absurd if taken literally ...
... seems to have been a proper and useful response to the challenge of the difficult , new literature of the twentieth century . To put it crudely , such criticism can make exciting sense of poems which would seem absurd if taken literally ...
Page 109
... seems to demonstrate an encouraging symmetry in the notion of ' grammetrics ' , where ' the grammar of the metrics ' turns out to be only another way of saying ' the metrics of the grammar ' , being of exactly equivalent dramatic ...
... seems to demonstrate an encouraging symmetry in the notion of ' grammetrics ' , where ' the grammar of the metrics ' turns out to be only another way of saying ' the metrics of the grammar ' , being of exactly equivalent dramatic ...
Page 182
... seems to recognize that the alliterative style was ori- ginally created by the pressures of oral improvisation . From first- hand experience of this art in Yugoslavia , Lord concludes that it is the inexperienced singer who relies on ...
... seems to recognize that the alliterative style was ori- ginally created by the pressures of oral improvisation . From first- hand experience of this art in Yugoslavia , Lord concludes that it is the inexperienced singer who relies on ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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