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What is poetry? : language and memory in the poems of the world /

"Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fabb, Nigel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; Note on the text ; List of symbols ; 1 Poetry ; The realms of gold ; Five poems and their forms ; What is poetry? ; How else might poetry be defined? ; The value of poetry
  • The structure and argument of this book 2 Form ; Kinds of poetic form ; Kinds of form and working memory ; Poetic sections ; Generated poetic form ; Communicated poetic form ; The line as generated form or communicated form ; The modularity of poetic form ; Properties of forms
  • Combinations of forms Summary ; 3 Language ; Syntactic structure and the line ; Prosodic structure ; The line and prosodic constituency ; Words and non-words that mark the edge of a line ; Other aspects of speech in poetry ; Breathing ; Co-performance ; Writing
  • Sign language poetry Fit and the development hypothesis ; The traditional and the avant-garde ; The difficulty of poetry ; Summary ; 4 Metre ; Metre ; Examples of metres based on stress and syllable counting ; English iambic pentameter ; An English pattern-poem ; Pashto
  • Havasupai Cretan ; Dyirbal ; Examples of metres based primarily on stress alone ; English `stress counting ́metre ; Hayes and MacEachern on English folk song quatrains ; Old English ; Other metres that count stressed syllables ; Examples of metres based on syllable counting alone