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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2019
      September 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108554152
      9781108429122
      9781108453066
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108554152
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 282 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 282 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Stylistics, Language and Linguistics
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    Michael Ferber's accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language tackles a wide range of subjects from a linguistic point of view. Written with the non-expert in mind, the book explores current linguistic concepts and theories and applies them to a variety of major poetic features. Equally appealing to linguists who feel that poetry has been unjustly neglected, the broad field of investigation touches on meter, rhyme (and other sound effects), onomatopoeia, syntax, meaning, metaphor, style, and translation, among others. Close study of poetic examples are mainly in English, but the book also focuses on several French, Latin, Greek, German, and Japanese examples, to show what is different and far from inevitable in English. This original, and unusually wide ranging study, delivers an engaging and often witty summary of how we define what poetry is.

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