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What is Poetry?: Language and Memory in the Poems of the World
Fabb, Nigel (University of Strathclyde)
What is Poetry?: Language and Memory in the Poems of the World
Fabb, Nigel (University of Strathclyde)
This new approach to poetry, which explores how language is shaped to fit human memory, is substantiated by an unrivalled selection of examples taken from over 130 world literatures. An impressive survey of metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism in poetical forms across the globe and throughout history.
228 pages, 3 b/w illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 21, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781107001855 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Dimensions | 237 × 162 × 22 mm · 476 g |
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