Language and Literary Structure: The Linguistic Analysis of Form in Verse and Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780521796989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str.

Nigel Fabb

Opis

This theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focuses on verse and narrative from a linguistic perspective. Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse and oral narrative tradition, as well as contemporary criticism. He offers a new linguistic approach to how metre and rhythm work in poetry, based on pragmatic theory. He provides a pragmatic explanation of formal ambiguity and indeterminacy and their aesthetic effects.