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... literary works are built , we shall give much of our attention to anonymous , popular verse in which a prevalent rhythmic phenomenon is more likely to be a reflection of a fundamental property of rhythm than a literary convention . Not ...
... literary works are built , we shall give much of our attention to anonymous , popular verse in which a prevalent rhythmic phenomenon is more likely to be a reflection of a fundamental property of rhythm than a literary convention . Not ...
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... literary theory and criticism we all too easily ignore this dimension and fall back on semantic properties or ideological content , and the common emphasis on mimetic effects of rhythm typifies this retreat from what is distinctive ...
... literary theory and criticism we all too easily ignore this dimension and fall back on semantic properties or ideological content , and the common emphasis on mimetic effects of rhythm typifies this retreat from what is distinctive ...
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... literary language is not the language of daily discourse , and that the ' meaning ' of a literary text is not to be located in some authorially underwritten intention or critically validated interpretation , but in what the text itself ...
... literary language is not the language of daily discourse , and that the ' meaning ' of a literary text is not to be located in some authorially underwritten intention or critically validated interpretation , but in what the text itself ...
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TRADITIONAL APPROACHES | 3 |
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES | 44 |
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acceptable alliteration allow already alternation approach beat beginning chapter classical common complex conventions course create demands demotion deviation discussion distinction double offbeat duple effect emphasis English example expectations experience expressive fact falling final five-beat four-beat function further give given hand iambic implied offbeat important indicate initial instance inversion kind language less linguistic means metre metrical pattern metrical set movement natural nonstresses normal noted observed occur opening optional pairing particular pause pentameter perceived perhaps phrase poem poetry poets position possible preference principle produces promotion pronunciation provides reader reading realisation reflect regular result rhyme rhythm rhythmic rules scansion semantic sense sequence simple single sounds speech stanza stress strong structure style subordination suggest syntactic tension theory third tradition triple trochaic underlying units unstressed syllables usually variation verse