An accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a wide range of poetic features from a linguistic point of view. Equally appealing to the non-expert and more experienced student of linguistics, this book delivers an engaging and often witty summary of how we define what poetry is.
An accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a wide range of poetic features from a linguistic point of view. Equally appealing to the non-expert and more experienced student of linguistics, this book delivers an engaging and often witty summary of how we define what poetry is.
Michael Ferber is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire. His previous publications include Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction (2010), The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge, 2012), and A Dictionary of Literary Symbols (Cambridge, 3rd edition, 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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