What Is Verse?
Language and Memory in the Poems of the World
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Word Count
57,000 words, Guess
Page Count
228 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhatispoetrylang0000fabb
- ISBN-139781107001855
- ISBN-101107001854
- Library of Congress Control Number2015000105
- OCLC Control Number899266083
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781107001855
- Open LibraryOL28564770M
Classifications
- LCCPN1031 .F24 2015
Description
"Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he argues, helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry"--
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