Poetic Voices: Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text - Softcover

Austin, Timothy R.

 
9780817307264: Poetic Voices: Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text

Synopsis

Recent developments in linguistic theory offer scholars new tools for understanding poems. This text reviews poetic texts which respond well to analysis from a particular stylistic perspective. Works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Frost, Shelley and Tennyson are among those analysed.

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About the Author

Timothy R. Austin is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago.

From the Back Cover

Poems written in the first person, poems that contain passages of conversation or dialogue, and narrative poems all rely on their readers' capacity to process discourse. Recent developments in linguistic theory, including developments that address discourse structure, offer literary scholars new tools for approaching a richer understanding of those poems. In Poetic Voices, Austin demonstrates some of the potential applications of such a discourse-based stylistics in both literary and linguistic / stylistic fields.

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