Overview
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.
- | Author: Nigel Fabb
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2002
- | Number of Pages: 242 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521792940
- | ISBN-13: 9780521792943
