Essays on the Language of LiteratureSeymour Benjamin Chatman, Samuel R. Levin |
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Page 427
... contrast is that it enables us to draw the line easily between a personal style and a literary language : literary language in a poem needs no contrast ; it is in fact a predictable pattern , whose linguistic elements receive no ...
... contrast is that it enables us to draw the line easily between a personal style and a literary language : literary language in a poem needs no contrast ; it is in fact a predictable pattern , whose linguistic elements receive no ...
Page 429
... contrast with the context . The reading speed is reduced by these hurdles , attention lingers on the representation , the stylistic effect is created . We can find instances where the stylistic effect does not seem to imply any material ...
... contrast with the context . The reading speed is reduced by these hurdles , attention lingers on the representation , the stylistic effect is created . We can find instances where the stylistic effect does not seem to imply any material ...
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... contrast which in both cases impose metaphorical in- terpretations ; citadel is more predictable in the frame erect X , but the contrast is immediately reestablished by siteless ; furthermore siteless is expressive be- cause it is a ...
... contrast which in both cases impose metaphorical in- terpretations ; citadel is more predictable in the frame erect X , but the contrast is immediately reestablished by siteless ; furthermore siteless is expressive be- cause it is a ...
Contents
Vowel and Consonant Patterns in Poetry 1953 David I Masson | 3 |
Some Parallels and Contrasts | 19 |
Some English Sonnets 1960 | 33 |
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