Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... verbal connotations after the Romantic manner ; it is rather an aesthetic pleasure resulting from lively patterns of syntax . Oddly , then , it may turn out that one distinguishing character- istic of Augustan poetry is the possession ...
... verbal connotations after the Romantic manner ; it is rather an aesthetic pleasure resulting from lively patterns of syntax . Oddly , then , it may turn out that one distinguishing character- istic of Augustan poetry is the possession ...
Page 76
... verbal and adverbial ( see Table IV ) . Verbal groups are the simplest kind in this text , since nearly all the verbal groups are single - word , present - tense items . This is only remarkable when one thinks of the enormous variety of ...
... verbal and adverbial ( see Table IV ) . Verbal groups are the simplest kind in this text , since nearly all the verbal groups are single - word , present - tense items . This is only remarkable when one thinks of the enormous variety of ...
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... verbal annotation to the structure and philosophy of language , should not have more to say about a level of engagement with literary texts which tries to go beyond verbal annotation . It is I not , presumably , because we are convinced ...
... verbal annotation to the structure and philosophy of language , should not have more to say about a level of engagement with literary texts which tries to go beyond verbal annotation . It is I not , presumably , because we are convinced ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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