Poetry and Language The Linguistics of Verse

Informationen zum Autor Michael Ferber is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire. His previous publications include Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction (2010), The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge, 2012), and A Dictionary of Literary Symbols (Cambridge, 3rd edition, 2017). Klappentext Presents an accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a range of poetic features from a linguistic perspective. Zusammenfassung An accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a wide range of poetic features from a linguistic point of view. Equally appealing to the non-expert and more experienced student of linguistics, this book delivers an engaging and often witty summary of how we define what poetry is. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Meter and the syllable; 3. Rhyme; 4. Onomatopoeia and sound symbolism; 5. Unusual word order and other syntactic quirks in poetry; 6. The meaning of a poem; 7. Metaphor; 8. Translating poetry; Appendix: on quantity and pitch; Works cited; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael (University of New Hampshire) Ferber, Michael Ferber
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprachen: Englisch
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.2019
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenscha
• EAN: 9781108429122
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42912-2
• Anzahl Seiten: 282
• Themen: Linguistics; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literary studies: poetry and poets