Poetry and Language: The Linguistics of Verse

ISBN-13: 9781108453066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 282 str.

Michael Ferber

Opis

Presents an accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a range of poetic features from a linguistic perspective.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Meter and the syllable; 3. Rhyme; 4. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism; 5. Unusual word order and other syntactic quirks in poetry; 6. The meaning of a poem; 7. Metaphor; 8. Translating poetry; Appendix: on quantity and pitch; Works cited; Index.