Essays on Style and Language: Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary StyleRoger Fowler |
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... whole text and to the other constituents of the text , not only in relation to comparable structures in other texts or in ' the lan- guage as a whole ' . The linguist C. F. Hockett has argued that a poem is a long idiom : an utterance ...
... whole text and to the other constituents of the text , not only in relation to comparable structures in other texts or in ' the lan- guage as a whole ' . The linguist C. F. Hockett has argued that a poem is a long idiom : an utterance ...
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... whole . Such standard criteria would obviously facilitate the process of whole - text stylistic compari- son ; but it is difficult to imagine that such a comparison , involving as it would the handling of so many variables , could be ...
... whole . Such standard criteria would obviously facilitate the process of whole - text stylistic compari- son ; but it is difficult to imagine that such a comparison , involving as it would the handling of so many variables , could be ...
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... whole basis of his art.'10 The 66 7 But see his article ' Whole Formulaic Verses in Greek and Southslavic Heroic Song ' , TAPA , lxiv ( 1933 ) , pp . 179–97 . 8 A. B. Lord , The Singer of Tales ( Harvard , 1960 ) . See his earlier work ...
... whole basis of his art.'10 The 66 7 But see his article ' Whole Formulaic Verses in Greek and Southslavic Heroic Song ' , TAPA , lxiv ( 1933 ) , pp . 179–97 . 8 A. B. Lord , The Singer of Tales ( Harvard , 1960 ) . See his earlier work ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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