Routledge Revivals: Essays on Style and Language (1966) - Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style

List of contents

Preface; 1. Linguistic Theory and The Study of Literature 2. The New Criticism and the Language of Poetry 3. By Algebra to Augustanism 4. Taking a Poem to Pieces 5. ‘Prose Rhythm’ and Metre 6. Distich and Sentence in Corneille and Racine 7. ‘Linguistic Reading’: Two Suggestions of the Quality of Literature 8. Linguistics and the Figures of Rhetoric 9. Chaucer’s Epistolary Style 10. The Formulaic Theory and Its Application to English Alliterative Poetry; Index

About the author

Roger Fowler

Summary

First published in 1966, this book gives a close analysis of the language of literature contributed to by critics and linguists, examining linguistic theory and poetry, and the rhythm and metre of English poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Fowler, Roger G. Fowler
• Assisted by: Roger Fowler (Editor), Roger G. Fowler (Editor), Fowler Roger (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138564091
• ISBN: 978-1-138-56409-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Language: history & general works, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Language: history and general works