Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
An Operational Definition and Description
Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-041-45463-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
First published in 1987, Free Verse and Prose Style argues that both definition and description are essential to the establishment of stylistics as a credible academic discipline. The author addresses directly the central concepts with which literary and linguistic stylisticians are concerned and proposes new approaches to the definition, description, and analysis of both verse and prose style.
The work begins with a demonstration that the problems involved in defining and analysing prose style are essentially the same as those involved in defining and analysing metrical structure. It ends with the establishment of definitions of verse and prose style – definitions which relate directly to the perpetual processes upon which, it is argued, the very existence of language itself depends. On the basis of these definitions, the author proposes an analytic method which clarifies the distinction between ‘period style’ and ‘individual style’ and that between ‘stylistic individuation’ and ‘lexical individuation’. It is demonstrated that these distinctions apply equally to prose and verse.
Authors whose works are discussed include Lancelot Andrewes, Thomas Browne, Browning, Coleridge, Donne, T.S. Eliot, Hemingway, Herrick, Henry James, Pope, Milton, William Perkins and Wordsworth.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate
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Weitere Infos & Material
General Introduction Part 1: Metrical Structure and Free Verse 1. Verse, poetry and value 2. An introduction to metrical structure in English 3. The accentual and the accentual syllabic metrical concepts 4. Variations on a theme: modulation, recapitulation, and misdirection 5. Free verse from the seventeenth century onward Part 2: The Associative Stylistic Mode and Free Verse 6. The Associative Stylistic Mode and Free Verse Part 3: An Approach to the Analysis of Prose Style 7. Semantic relational structure and stylistic mode, type and individuation 8. Mode, type and individuation in the seventeenth century writings of Donne, Browne and Andrewes Conclusion
