Comparative Literature in the Light of Chinese Prosody

With exemplary cases of original texts from across disciplines and cultures, this is the first book that discusses how reading and understanding could often be surreptitiously and serendipitously influenced by the "invisible" but prosodically indispensable text-enlivened "trivial" function words.

List of contents

Foreword by Roger T. Ames

Acknowledgments

Part One: Content Words

Chapter 1: A Word that Makes a World of Difference

Chapter 2: "Le Mot Juste" and "Content Words"

Chapter 3: "Les Mots Justes" as Choices

Part Two: Function Words

Chapter 4: The Unheard Melodies of the Trivial

Chapter 5: Indispensability of Function Words as Life-Makers

Chapter 6: Serendipity of the Familiar

Chapter 7: Function words as "Les Mots Justes"

Chapter 8: "Museum Effect" as "Le Mot Juste" - Mediated "Symphonic Tapestry"

Bibliography

About the author

By Shudong Chen - Foreword by Roger T. Ames

Product details

• Authors: Shudong Chen, Chen Shudong
• Assisted by: Ames Roger T. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498573382
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7338-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Grammar & vocabulary, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, Language learning: writing skills, Writing skills, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Literature: history and criticism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary