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Arbitrary Power : Romanticism, Language, Politics /

This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Rom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Keach, William, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Arbitrary Power; 2 Words Are Things; 3 The Politics of Rhyme; 4 Vulgar Idioms; 5 "'A Subtler Language within Language'"; 6 The Language of Revolutionary Violence; Notes; Index.