31.1988, Books: Poetry and Language: Ferber

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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 15:32:06
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: Poetry and Language: Ferber

 


Title: Poetry and Language 
Subtitle: The Linguistics of Verse 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-general-interest/poetry-and-language-linguistics-verse?format=PB 


Author: Michael Ferber

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108663519 Pages: 282 Price: U.S. $ 21.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108429122 Pages: 282 Price: U.S. $ 84.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108453066 Pages: 282 Price: U.S. $ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108453066 Pages: 282 Price: U.K. £ 19.99


Abstract:

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.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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