The Track of the Repetend: Syntactic and Lexical Repetition in Modern Poetry |
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... paradox of Divine creation — that proto - mimetic act , a creation both eternal and , necessarily , exist- ing in time . In order to understand that paradox , Augustine dis- sects the notion of time itself , claiming that our ideas of ...
... paradox of Divine creation — that proto - mimetic act , a creation both eternal and , necessarily , exist- ing in time . In order to understand that paradox , Augustine dis- sects the notion of time itself , claiming that our ideas of ...
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... paradox coming into play . Even if an author were to begin a work with a sentence and then repeat it identically , the second occurrence would be modified by the fact that we are encountering the sentence again for some reason . In a ...
... paradox coming into play . Even if an author were to begin a work with a sentence and then repeat it identically , the second occurrence would be modified by the fact that we are encountering the sentence again for some reason . In a ...
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... paradox is at least implied . The reader must intuit the priority placed in the incomplete here ; he must see the " end " of the poem as a convergence of tenor and vehicle . Through semantic incompletion , the emphasis is placed on the ...
... paradox is at least implied . The reader must intuit the priority placed in the incomplete here ; he must see the " end " of the poem as a convergence of tenor and vehicle . Through semantic incompletion , the emphasis is placed on the ...
Contents
Repetition Times Trace | 1 |
History and Structure | 45 |
Refrain Types Exemplified | 63 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
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