Language and literary structure the linguistic analysis of form in verse and narrative

Summary: "How does a literary text get to have literary form, and what is the relation between literary form and linguistic form? 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 traditions, as well as contemporary criticism. In recent years literary theory has paid relatively little attention to form; this book argues that form is interesting.

Record details

ISBN: 0511020317 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780511020315 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780521792943 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0521792940 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780511487026 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0511487029 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0521796989 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780521796989
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Literary form -- 2. Generated metrical form -- 3. Communicated form -- 4. The communication of metre -- 5. Lines -- 6. Line-groups in metrical verse and in narrative -- 7. Complexity.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.