The first book that literature students should read, this guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions and methods of essay and dissertation writing.
Taking students through the various stages of writing, from planning to final submission, it offers specific guidelines and a lively, detailed commentary on actual examples of student work at each stage.
The first book that literature students should read, this guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions and methods of essay and dissertati...
Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued...
Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components ...
The first book that literature students should read, this guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions and methods of essay and dissertation writing.
Taking students through the various stages of writing, from planning to final submission, it offers specific guidelines and a lively, detailed commentary on actual examples of student work at each stage.
The first book that literature students should read, this guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions and methods of essay and dissertati...
