Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 42
Page 32
... sense , feeling , tone and intention . When we speak we do so in order to say something , but we also enunciate some feelings about the state of affairs we are referring to , and at the same time indi- cate an attitude towards a ...
... sense , feeling , tone and intention . When we speak we do so in order to say something , but we also enunciate some feelings about the state of affairs we are referring to , and at the same time indi- cate an attitude towards a ...
Page 66
... sense , and this in turn is complicated by the tonal alikeness ( pejorative ) in the adjectival uses of words opposite in sense . This could be elaborated symbolically , as Crabbe's couplet was . But no doubt enough has been done on ...
... sense , and this in turn is complicated by the tonal alikeness ( pejorative ) in the adjectival uses of words opposite in sense . This could be elaborated symbolically , as Crabbe's couplet was . But no doubt enough has been done on ...
Page 100
... sense novel . This much common ground is necessary , and also sufficient : a contributor might fairly think himself hard done by if he were first required to be absolutely explicit about the nature and theoretical status of his and his ...
... sense novel . This much common ground is necessary , and also sufficient : a contributor might fairly think himself hard done by if he were first required to be absolutely explicit about the nature and theoretical status of his and his ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary ... Roger Fowler No preview available - 1966 |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic alliteration alliterative verse analysis Augustan Beowulf Bérénice bound clauses Chaucer's collocation connexion context of situation counterpoint couplet deviation discourse distich distich-juncture distinction effect elements English alliterative enjambment epistle essay example fact foregrounding formal formulaic free clauses grammatical grammatical units grammetrics Homer I. A. Richards iamb junctures Keats's kind Le Cid linguistic features linguistic form linguistics and criticism literary criticism literary language literary texts literature meaning metaphor methods metre metrical metrical units Middle English non-literature nouns occur Old English poetry oral poetry parallelism Parry perhaps phonemes phonological phrases poem poet poetic language prose rhythm reader reference relation repetition rhetorical rhyme rule scale Scogan Sebeok semantic sense sentence speech stanza stresses style stylistics suggests syllables syncopation syntactical syntagmatic syntax techniques theory tion traditional usage utterance variety verb verbal verse W. K. Wimsatt Wellek width of cold words wretched width writing written