1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: Essays on Style and Language (1966) Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style
Edited By Roger Fowler
Copyright 1966
204 Pages
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Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close analysis of the language of literature contributed to by critics and linguists, examining linguistic theory and poetry, and as part of this the rhythm and metre of English poetry is deconstructed. Language and its emotive structure is analysed, while the... Read more
Preface
1. Linguistic Theory and The Study of Literature
2. The New Criticism and the Language of Poetry
3. By Algebra to Augustanism
4. Taking a Poem to Pieces
5. ‘Prose Rhythm’ and Metre
6. Distich and Sentence in Corneille and Racine
7. ‘Linguistic Reading’: Two Suggestions of the Quality of Literature
8. Linguistics and the Figures of Rhetoric
9. Chaucer’s Epistolary Style
10. The Formulaic Theory and Its Application to English Alliterative Poetry
Index
Biography
Roger Fowler
