Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... selected stanzas and claims to have demonstrated a viable connexion between the poem's sound and sense . Finally , he discovers a scale of grammatical moods in some of Keats's sentences , arranged , he says , in order of increasingly ...
... selected stanzas and claims to have demonstrated a viable connexion between the poem's sound and sense . Finally , he discovers a scale of grammatical moods in some of Keats's sentences , arranged , he says , in order of increasingly ...
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... selection , the variations are liable to be quite striking , and as one might expect they distinguish sentence 4 from the others . None of the verbs in this sentence are ' simple present ' items . Two contain modal verbs , i.e. could ...
... selection , the variations are liable to be quite striking , and as one might expect they distinguish sentence 4 from the others . None of the verbs in this sentence are ' simple present ' items . Two contain modal verbs , i.e. could ...
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... selection . This , in Jakobson's words , is the projection of ' the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination.'12 A syntagmatic figure introduces a layer of patterning additional to those normally ...
... selection . This , in Jakobson's words , is the projection of ' the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination.'12 A syntagmatic figure introduces a layer of patterning additional to those normally ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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